Lessons in Claude Code

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Claude Code for Beginners - The AI Coding Assistant That Actually Understands Your Codebase

15 minNext up

A practical quick-start guide to Claude Code. Learn installation, basic usage, and how it compares to GitHub Copilot and Cursor.

Anatomy of a Claude Code Session - What Happens Under the Hood

20 min

Understand what happens under the hood in a Claude Code session. Learn the agentic loop, tool execution flow, context management, and how Claude reasons through your codebase.

Anatomy of the .claude Folder - Every File and Folder Explained with Real Examples

20 min

A complete guide to every file and folder inside .claude/. Understand settings, commands, projects, memory, and how Claude Code uses this folder to persist your preferences.

CLAUDE.md for .NET Developers - Complete Guide with Templates

30 min

Deep dive into CLAUDE.md with production-ready templates for Clean Architecture, Minimal APIs, and enterprise .NET solutions. Learn the memory hierarchy, WHAT-WHY-HOW framework, and import syntax.

Prompt Engineering for Claude Code - The .NET Developer's Guide

25 min

Learn how to write effective prompts for Claude Code in .NET projects. Covers prompt structure, context priming, iterative refinement, and patterns that consistently produce better results.

Claude Code Prompts for .NET Developers - A Copy-Paste Library for Every Workflow Stage

20 min

A copy-paste library of 11 structured Claude Code prompts covering the full .NET workflow: brainstorming, tech research, architecture selection, scaffolding, cross-cutting concerns, EF Core, features, unit and integration tests, Aspire, and a modernization audit - each with negative commands and verification steps.

Plan Mode in Claude Code - Think Before You Build with AI

25 min

Master Plan Mode to plan ASP.NET Core features before writing code. Includes the 4-phase workflow, decision matrix, Ctrl+G plan editing, and CLAUDE.md synergy.

Git Worktrees in Claude Code - Parallel AI Sessions Without File Conflicts

25 min

Use Claude Code's built-in Git worktree support to run parallel AI coding sessions on isolated branches. Covers the --worktree flag, branching from a PR, .worktreeinclude, subagent isolation, hooks, cleanup, and the .NET-specific gotchas no other guide mentions.

Skills in Claude Code - Reusable Prompts and Workflows

25 min

Build reusable skills in Claude Code with SKILL.md to automate .NET workflows. Complete frontmatter reference, arguments, subagent delegation, dynamic context injection, bundled skills, and 5 design patterns from 25+ real skills.

Build a Custom Claude Code Skill That Scaffolds Your .NET Architecture

18 min

Turn your conventions into a /scaffold-feature skill that generates a complete .NET 10 vertical slice - endpoint, handler, validator, EF config, and test - the way you'd write it. A hands-on application of skills with a real, runnable repo.

Hooks in Claude Code - Automate Your .NET Workflow with 10+ Ready-to-Use Examples

25 minComing soon

Master Claude Code hooks for .NET projects. 10+ copy-paste hook configs for dotnet format, test automation, file protection, and dangerous command blocking. All 4 handler types and a hooks vs skills decision matrix.

Hooks That Actually Matter for .NET - The Production Set I Run on Every Repo

20 minComing soon

The opinionated short-list: auto-run dotnet format after every file edit, block dangerous EF Core commands like dotnet ef database update before they execute, and force tests after every implementation. Why CLAUDE.md instructions are advisory but hooks are deterministic - and which guardrails earn a place in a real .NET repo.

How I Use dotnet-claude-kit - Making Claude Code Write Senior-Level .NET

25 min

Install and use dotnet-claude-kit, the free Claude Code plugin I built for .NET: 47 skills, 10 specialist agents, 16 slash commands, and 20 Roslyn-powered MCP tools that replace file-reading with real compiler answers.

MCP Servers - Connecting Claude to External Tools

25 minComing soon

Understand the Model Context Protocol and how MCP servers extend Claude Code's capabilities. Connect to databases, APIs, and third-party services.

Build Your First MCP Server in C# with the Official SDK

30 min

Build a complete, runnable MCP server on .NET 10 with the official SDK 2.1 - dependency injection, the stdout rule that breaks most first attempts, both stdio and HTTP transport, and what changed in SDK 2.0. The tool looks up real NuGet versions so your agent stops inventing them. Not a weather demo.

Connect Claude Code to Your Database - SQL MCP for EF Core Workflows

25 minComing soon

Wire up Postgres and SQL Server MCP servers so Claude sees your real schema while writing EF Core queries and migrations - and learn when schema-aware AI helps vs when it confidently writes the wrong LINQ.

Observability MCP - Triage .NET Incidents with Claude

25 minComing soon

Connect Claude to your logs and traces - Seq, Application Insights, Grafana - so it triages incidents with real telemetry instead of pasted snippets. Covers the MCP setup and the triage prompts that actually surface root causes.

Sub-Agents - Task Delegation & Parallel Execution

22 minComing soon

Leverage sub-agents to parallelize tasks and delegate complex operations. Understand when and how to use multi-agent workflows in .NET projects.

Claude Code Agent Teams for .NET - Build an ASP.NET Core API with Parallel AI Agents

25 minComing soon

Coordinate multiple Claude Code instances to build .NET features in parallel. Includes Windows setup, real token cost data, a decision matrix for single session vs subagents vs agent teams, and a hands-on ASP.NET Core walkthrough.

Headless Claude Code - Automate .NET Workflows with claude -p

22 minComing soon

Run Claude Code without the interactive terminal: scripted runs with claude -p, structured JSON output, exit codes, cost controls, and automated triage of failing .NET builds.

Automated PR Reviews for .NET with Claude Code in GitHub Actions

25 minComing soon

Wire Claude Code into GitHub Actions to review every pull request. Includes the workflow YAML, a review prompt tuned for .NET smells like async-over-sync and EF Core N+1, and an honest 30-day scorecard of what it caught vs missed.

Issue-to-PR Automation - Assign a GitHub Issue to Claude, Get a Draft PR

25 minComing soon

Set up the workflow where Claude picks up a labeled GitHub issue and opens a reviewed draft PR: the automation setup, the guardrails that keep it safe, and which issue types it handles well vs where a human should start.

Nightly Maintenance Agents - Dependency Bumps, Analyzer Fixes, and Doc Drift

22 minComing soon

Scheduled headless Claude runs that keep a .NET codebase healthy while you sleep: NuGet dependency bumps, new analyzer warning fixes, and documentation drift checks - each delivered as a small, verified PR.

Spec-Driven Development - Writing Specs and ADRs Claude Can Execute

25 minComing soon

The senior deliverable is shifting from code to specs. Learn the ADR and spec template that produces correct .NET implementations - demonstrated by running the same feature from a weak spec vs a strong one.

Architecture Guardrails - Stop AI from Violating Your .NET Architecture

25 minComing soon

Defense in depth for AI-assisted codebases: CLAUDE.md conventions as suggestions, Claude Code hooks as gates, and Roslyn analyzers plus architecture tests as law. Watch Claude attempt a violation and get caught at each layer.

Team-Wide Claude Code Governance - The Checked-In .claude Folder

22 minComing soon

Turn the .claude folder into a team asset: shared settings and permission allowlists, skills as team conventions, repo vs user scope, and onboarding a new developer with a single clone.

Build an Internal Claude Code Plugin for Your Org

25 minComing soon

Package your team's skills, hooks, agents, and MCP configuration into a private plugin so every repository and every developer gets the same setup - versioned, distributable, and maintained in one place.

The .NET Problems I Still Don't Trust AI With

20 minComing soon

The judgment capstone: race conditions and async coordination, transaction scope across services, EF migrations on live databases, time zone math, and distributed consistency - with a real failing example for each.

20 Advanced Claude Code Tips for .NET Developers

25 min

Twenty advanced tips from months of daily Claude Code usage on .NET 10 solutions: context engineering, hooks, subagents, MCP, git worktrees, and model selection - every one framed around real C# and ASP.NET Core work.