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Claude Code
Anthropic's coding assistant in the terminal: installing, configuring and working with it day to day.
September 2026
- 9 min read
Connect Claude Code to other tools with MCP
An MCP server gives Claude Code new tools, from a docs search to your own scripts. Add one in a single command, write a small one yourself, and know what a repository's .mcp.json can start on your machine.
- 6 min read
Pick up where you left off in Claude Code
How Claude Code keeps a long job going across days. Name and resume sessions, know what compaction keeps and what it drops, let auto memory carry facts between sessions, and check the transcript when a summary gets a detail wrong.
- 7 min read
Hand side tasks to Claude Code subagents
A subagent does a noisy job, like reading a large log, in its own context and hands back a short report. Write one with its own tools and model, see what it knows and what it doesn't, and check what a repository's subagents can do before you run them.
- 9 min read
Run your own commands automatically with Claude Code hooks
Hooks are shell commands that Claude Code runs at fixed moments, such as before a command or after an edit. Log what Claude runs, block what it must never run, check every file it edits, and get told when it is waiting for you.
- 10 min read
Control what Claude Code can do without asking
Permission modes, allow and deny rules, and where to put them, so Claude Code stops asking about the safe things and never touches the ones that matter.
- 8 min read
Turn prompts you repeat into your own Claude Code commands
A skill is a small Markdown file that becomes a /command of your own. Write one for the checklist you keep pasting, include current data such as your git diff, and choose whether Claude may use it on its own.
- 7 min read
The CLAUDE.md file, or how to tell Claude Code what your project is
Every Claude Code session starts from zero. CLAUDE.md is the file that saves you repeating yourself. Where it lives, what to put in it, what to leave out, and a complete example.
- 4 min read
Getting started with Claude Code
Installing it, signing in, your first conversation, who approves what it does, and the commands you will use every day.
- 8 min read
Customize the Claude Code status line
Show the model, the folder, context use and your plan limits at the bottom of Claude Code, with a small script you write yourself or one Claude writes for you.