Claude Code Mastery: Developer Productivity to Agentic Engineering

A 2-day deep dive into Claude Code — from power-user productivity through custom agent and MCP server development

Course Format and Delivery

Delivery Method: LiveOnline
Schedule: 2 days

All sessions are delivered live by an expert instructor in a fully interactive online environment.

*20% off for group bookings when booking 3 or more attendees from the same organization on the same course dates in the same transaction.

About this course

Claude Code has overtaken GitHub Copilot as the most-used AI coding tool, and Anthropic secured its position with the SpaceX Colossus One partnership (300 MW, ~220K GPU equivalents) and doubled Claude Code rate limits.

This 2-day intensive takes participants from beginner to expert.

Day 1 covers the full productivity toolkit: installation, CLAUDE.md project setup, effective prompting (extended thinking, multi-file edits), slash commands, and IDE integrations.
Day 2 moves into advanced territory: building custom MCP servers, the Claude Agent SDK (with memory beta), hook-based CI/CD automation, and designing agentic engineering pipelines that orchestrate complex development tasks autonomously.

What you will need

For developers at all Claude Code experience levels. Day 1 is beginner-friendly (extends the ccode half-day with more depth). Day 2 is intermediate-to-advanced. Participants need an active Claude account. Approximately 35% lecture, 65% hands-on labs.

Topics Covered

Day 1: Productivity & Power User Workflows

Time	Topic	Type
9:00 – 9:30	Welcome, installation, authentication, environment verification	Setup
9:30 – 10:15	Claude Code fundamentals: architecture, context, how it thinks	Lecture
10:15 – 11:00	Lab: First workflows — code generation, explanation, refactoring	Hands-on
11:00 – 11:15	Break	Break
11:15 – 12:00	CLAUDE.md mastery: project config, memory, conventions, context	Lecture
12:00 – 12:45	Lab: Configure CLAUDE.md for a real project with custom rules	Hands-on
12:45 – 1:45	Lunch	Break
1:45 – 2:30	Advanced prompting: extended thinking, multi-file edits, TDD workflows	Lecture
2:30 – 3:15	Lab: Multi-file refactoring and test generation workflows	Hands-on
3:15 – 3:30	Break	Break
3:30 – 4:15	Slash commands, keyboard shortcuts, IDE integrations	Lecture
4:15 – 5:00	Lab: Custom slash commands and workflow optimization	Hands-on
5:00 – 5:30	Productivity tips, troubleshooting, Day 2 preview	Discussion

Day 2: Agentic Engineering & Custom Tooling

Time	Topic	Type
9:00 – 9:15	Day 1 review and questions	Discussion
9:15 – 10:00	MCP architecture: protocol, servers, tools, resources, prompts	Lecture
10:00 – 11:00	Lab: Build a production MCP server with multiple tools	Hands-on
11:00 – 11:15	Break	Break
11:15 – 12:00	Claude Agent SDK: building custom agents with Claude as backbone	Lecture
12:00 – 12:45	Lab: Build a custom agent using the Claude Agent SDK	Hands-on
12:45 – 1:45	Lunch	Break
1:45 – 2:30	Hooks, automation triggers, CI/CD pipeline integration	Lecture
2:30 – 3:15	Lab: Hook-driven automation — auto-review, auto-test, auto deploy	Hands-on
3:15 – 3:30	Break	Break
3:30 – 4:15	Agentic engineering patterns: orchestrating complex dev tasks	Lecture
4:15 – 5:00	Capstone: Design and build an agentic engineering pipeline	Hands-on
5:00 – 5:30	Capstone showcase, best practices, wrap-up	Discussion

Brent Laster

Facilitator

Brent Laster is a global trainer, author, speaker, and founder/president of Tech Skills Transformations LLC. He helps enterprise teams adopt modern software practices in AI engineering, AI-assisted development, DevOps, automation, and secure software delivery. He is the author of Learning GitHub Copilot, Learning GitHub Actions, Professional Git, and Jenkins 2: Up and Running, as well as multiple online and live training programs for companies such as O'Reilly. In addition to AI expertise, Brent brings more than 25 years of experience in software development, management and technical leadership, DevOps, release engineering, and open-source technologies. He regularly presents and conducts workshops at industry conferences and for private clients.