---
title: "Claude Code Mastery - Becoming a Power User"
description: "Turn the agent into a reliable teammate"
type: "course"
locale: "en"
canonical: "https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery"
---

# Claude Code Mastery - Becoming a Power User

- Level: einsteiger
- Lessons: 7
- Canonical URL: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery
- Locale: en

> Turn the agent into a reliable teammate

Go deep on Claude Code. Teach it your rules with CLAUDE.md, build reusable skills and commands, automate quality gates with hooks, connect tools with MCP, and run multi-agent workflows without burning context or money.

## Lessons

### 2.1 CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md: Teaching Your Agent the Rules

- Canonical URL: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/claude-md-and-agents-md-teaching-your-agent-the-rules
- Markdown: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/claude-md-and-agents-md-teaching-your-agent-the-rules.md

Write a project rules file that makes your agent consistent, and grow it as a living skills library where every gotcha becomes a permanent rule

### 2.2 Skills and Commands: Reusable Superpowers

- Canonical URL: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/skills-and-commands-reusable-superpowers
- Markdown: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/skills-and-commands-reusable-superpowers.md

Package recurring workflows into reusable skills and slash commands you can trigger instantly, and know when each is worth building

### 2.3 Hooks and Scripts: Automating Your Workflow

- Canonical URL: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/hooks-and-scripts-automating-your-workflow
- Markdown: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/hooks-and-scripts-automating-your-workflow.md

Automate quality gates and routine steps with lifecycle hooks and scripts so they run without you thinking about them

### 2.4 MCP Explained: Connecting Your Agent to Everything

- Canonical URL: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/mcp-explained-connecting-your-agent-to-everything
- Markdown: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/mcp-explained-connecting-your-agent-to-everything.md

Understand the Model Context Protocol, connect MCP servers to your agent, and judge when MCP beats a plain CLI tool

### 2.5 Sub-Agents, Agent Teams and Workflows

- Canonical URL: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/sub-agents-agent-teams-and-workflows
- Markdown: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/sub-agents-agent-teams-and-workflows.md

Use sub-agents and teams effectively, with the labyrinth analogy for clean delegation, while avoiding the context cliff and runaway cost

### 2.6 Context Engineering: Compaction, Handovers, Resets and Thinking Effort

- Canonical URL: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/context-engineering-compaction-handovers-resets-and-thinking-effort
- Markdown: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/context-engineering-compaction-handovers-resets-and-thinking-effort.md

Manage long-running agent work with deliberate compaction, clean handovers, well-timed resets and the right thinking effort

### 2.7 Pro Setup: Status Line, Key Flags, Phone and Cloud Sessions

- Canonical URL: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/pro-setup-status-line-key-flags-phone-and-cloud-sessions
- Markdown: https://agenticschool.dev/courses/claude-code-mastery/pro-setup-status-line-key-flags-phone-and-cloud-sessions.md

Configure a professional Claude Code setup with a custom status line, the flags you use daily, and remote phone and cloud workflows