Mastering Claude Code: A Guide to Programmable Agent Workflows

The casual user types prompts, accepts suggestions, and treats it like a fancier autocomplete. The daily driver uses it like a programmable agent with memory, custom commands, parallel sessions, and a project setup that compounds over time.

Once you stop thinking of Claude Code as a prompt-and-wait chatbot and start treating it as a programmable agent, everything changes.

This guide is for the second kind of person, assuming you already know what claude does when you type it in a terminal.