claude-howto

A visual, example-driven guide to Claude Code that leans on copy-paste templates and diagrams, promising a path from the first slash command to agent workflows.

The README starts from a complaint. Official docs describe each feature, the author argues, but never show how to combine them. You learn that slash commands exist without learning how to chain them with hooks, memory, and subagents. There is no clear order either: should MCP come before hooks, skills before subagents? And the examples stay too basic for real work. The claim is that most of Claude Code's power sits unused because people do not know what they do not know.

The answer is a structured course, not another feature reference. Ten tutorial modules cover the feature set, with Mermaid diagrams that try to show how each feature works internally, so you understand why rather than just how. The path is progressive, from beginner to power user, and comes with time estimates. A comparison table in the README sets the guide against the official docs: visual tutorials versus reference text, production-ready templates versus basic snippets, a learning path versus self-directed browsing.

The payload is copy-paste material: configs, slash commands, CLAUDE.md templates, hook scripts, MCP configs, subagent definitions, and plugin bundles. The roadmap is measured, with each module carrying an estimated time, from a 30 minute start on slash commands up to two to three hours on advanced features, about 11 to 13 hours for the whole path. Built-in self-assessment runs inside Claude Code to find gaps. A table of use cases maps workflows to feature combos, like automated code review built from slash commands, subagents, memory, and MCP.

The guide is MIT licensed and free, with no restrictions beyond keeping the license notice. It claims to stay synced with every Claude Code release, citing version 2.1.220 from July 2026 and compatibility with Claude Code 2.1 and newer. Templates are said to work across Opus 5, Sonnet 5, Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.8, and Haiku 4.5. For offline reading, a command generates an EPUB of all content with the diagrams included.

What this guide is selling is organization: a fixed sequence, ready templates, and checkpoints, all aimed at the person who owns Claude Code but has not wired its parts together.

• Source 1 · Project repository
• Source 2 · README