Claude Code Bootcamp: Hooks, MCP & Agentic AI Workflows (Udemy.com)
Learn Claude Code from zero — hooks, MCP, sub-agents, skills, memory & agentic workflows with hands-on real projects
Created by: Madan Reddy
Last updated July 2026
What you will learn
- Set up Claude Code from scratch on any project, with proper modes and permissions
- Write a clean, modular CLAUDE md system using Rules and Skills
- Build custom hooks that enforce your team's coding standards automatically
- Connect Claude Code to your browser, database, and live documentation via MCP
- Automate your entire GitHub workflow — PR reviews, issue triage, bug fixes
- Orchestrate teams of specialized sub-agents working in parallel
- Recover from any mistake instantly using checkpoints and session forking
- Run multiple parallel Claude sessions on the same codebase using Git worktrees
- Build production-grade AI workflows your team can actually rely on
Course Description
Stop using AI like a chatbot. Start engineering with it. The way we write software is changing — not slowly, not gradually, but fundamentally. Today, AI can write code. Fix bugs. Review pull requests. Open GitHub issues. Automate entire workflows.
But here's the truth most courses won't tell you:
Most developers are still using AI like a chatbot.
They type a prompt. They copy the answer. They move on. And they wonder why their AI feels powerful in demos — and useless in their actual codebase.
This course flips that completely.
By the end of this bootcamp, you won't just use Claude Code. You'll orchestrate it. You won't be writing prompts. You'll be engineering systems that AI runs for you — hands-free, around the clock, on real production codebases.
What You'll Learn — Section by Section
Section 1 — Mastering Claude Code: Setup, Modes, Permissions & Customization
You'll start with the foundation — installing Claude Code, configuring it for your environment, and understanding the four core modes that determine how Claude behaves: Default, Auto-Accept, Plan, and YOLO.
You'll master:
Installing Claude Code on macOS, Linux, and Windows
Choosing between the terminal experience and native VS Code integration
Working with the CLI, slash commands, and special notations like @file and #memory
Understanding when to use which mode — and the trade-offs between safety and speed
Building your first CLAUDE md — the file that trains Claude on your project once and forever
Locking down permissions with three guards: Allow, Ask, Deny
Mastering the settings.json file and /config command
Configuring Claude Code with CLI arguments for power users
Teaching Claude how to talk to you with custom output styles
By the end of this section, Claude Code will know your project, your preferences, and your boundaries — without you typing a single instruction twice.
Section 2 — Never Lose Your Work: Mastering Context, Sessions & Checkpoints
Every developer working with AI hits the same wall — the context window fills up, and suddenly you've lost two hours of work. This section makes sure that never happens to you again.
You'll learn:
The invisible fuel tank — how Claude Code's context window actually works
When to use /compact vs /clear — and the critical difference between them
Full session management — saving, naming, resuming, forking
Resume, fork, and continue any session like a Git branch
Checkpoints — Ctrl+Z on steroids, your safety net before risky edits
Recovering from broken code in seconds, not hours
Running multiple parallel Claude Code sessions with Git worktrees
This is the section that turns Claude Code from a flaky assistant into a reliable engineering partner you can trust with long, complex tasks.
Section 3 — Claude Code + GitHub: Automating Real Developer Workflows
Imagine pushing your code, and before you even open GitHub, AI has already reviewed it, fixed bugs, and opened the pull request.
Imagine tagging @claude on a bug report — and finding a fix waiting for you when you wake up.
That's what this section delivers.
You'll learn three powerful integration patterns:
Terminal/Local integration — let Claude Code init repos, commit, and push for you
GitHub Actions @claude bot — autonomous PR review and issue triage in your repos
Headless/Scripting integration — running Claude Code in CI/CD pipelines
You'll build:
Custom commands like /commit and /commit-push-pr that turn entire workflows into one keystroke
A fully working GitHub Actions setup for the @claude bot — line-by-line breakdown of the workflow YAML
An issue-to-PR pipeline — bug reported, AI investigates, AI fixes, PR opened, all automatic
Real demos on a Spring Boot job portal application so you see this in production code, not toy examples
By the end, your GitHub repository will feel less like a code host and more like a team member that ships while you sleep.
Section 4 — From Chaos to Control: Mastering Rules, Memory & Skills
Your CLAUDE md will grow. It always does. From a clean 50 lines to a 2,000-line monster Claude reads on every prompt — slow, expensive, and half irrelevant.
This section breaks that monolith into a clean, modular system.
You'll master:
Rules — splitting your CLAUDE md into focused, modular files
Auto Memory — Claude Code's personal notebook it writes for itself, so you don't have to
Skills — on-demand expertise Claude loads only when needed (progressive disclosure)
Context Fork — running skills inside isolated sub-agents to keep your main context clean
Slash Commands — and how they're quietly evolving into the Skills system
Building your own custom skill from scratch that Claude loads automatically when relevant
You'll see real demos of Claude building its own memory in real time, watching your CLAUDE md go from chaos to clean, and witnessing the silent evolution from Commands to Skills that's reshaping how Claude Code works in 2026.
This section alone will save you hours of context window costs and dramatically speed up every single Claude Code session.
Section 5 — Hooks: Teach Claude Code to Follow Your Rules, Not Its Instincts
You tell Claude never to touch a file. It touches it anyway.
You ask it to skip secrets. It commits an API key.
You say "don't run migrations in production." It runs them.
Hooks turn hopes into guarantees.
Hooks are scripts that fire automatically — before tool calls, after tool calls, on session start, on notifications. They're how you turn Claude Code from a polite assistant into a rule-following engineer.
You'll build:
Your first hook — a notification system that taps you on the shoulder when Claude needs you
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
1,313 Reviews
Madan Reddy
Madan Reddy is the founder of eazybytes, who boasts over 15 years of experience creating and distributing enterprise web applications using Java, Spring, SpringBoot, Microservices, React, Angular, Cloud & Generative AI. He is consistently enthusiastic about staying current and imparting his knowledge with others. With his remarkable talent for simplifying complex concepts, he has been able to instruct novice software developers for many years, and has recently extended his knowledge to Udemy, where he has created top-rated courses. Through his teachings on Udemy, he intends to impart the knowledge he has acquired to other software engineers and college students.
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Reviews
By Vikas Patel on 9/27/2026
Excellent course—practical, well structured, and highly relevant for engineers who want to move beyond simply prompting AI and understand how Claude Code can be used for real agentic engineering workflows. I especially appreciated the hands-on coverage of CLAUDE.md, Skills, Hooks, MCP, custom sub-agents, context isolation, parallel specialized agents, and Agent Teams. The progression from individual Claude Code concepts to practical examples such as bug investigation, security/performance/code-quality reviews, and multi-agent collaboration made the architecture much easier to understand. As a DevOps/SRE and Platform Engineer moving deeper into AI Platform Engineering and Agentic Automation, I found many concepts immediately applicable to real engineering use cases—incident investigation, release reviews, operational automation, safety guardrails, and AI-assisted platform operations. I also liked that the course didn't stop at theory; it demonstrated how these capabilities fit together in actual workflows. I finished the course with several concrete project ideas that I can now turn into hands-on portfolio implementations. Excellent work by Madan Reddy and Eazy Bytes. Definitely a 5-star course for engineers learning Claude Code, MCP, and agentic AI workflows.
By Amanda Cannady on 9/16/2026
Since it's named "Learn Claude Code from zero" and says Skill Level: All Levels, I was expecting not to need a basic understanding of coding, but within the first few lectures it stated you should have a basic knowledge of a programming language, and I agree as there was a lot of terminology I didn't understand. When it came to downloading and installing the necessary programs to follow along the process was not step by step, the instructor literally tells you to figure it out yourself. The instructor is obviously very skilled and knowledgeable and I was able to get value out of the course, but it was not the right level for me.
By Badam Rajasekhara Reddy on 9/10/2026
This is a very useful and practical course for anyone who wants to learn Claude Code beyond the basics. I especially liked the hands-on coverage of Hooks, MCP, Skills, Memory, sub-agents, and agentic workflows. The real-world projects make the concepts much easier to understand and apply. The course provides a good progression from Claude Code fundamentals to more advanced automation and multi-agent workflows. A few sections could go a little deeper into production-level use cases and best practices, but overall, it's a well-structured course and definitely worth taking for developers who want to improve their AI-assisted development workflow. Highly recommended for developers interested in Claude Code and agentic AI.
By Siva Reddy Padala on 8/23/2026
I found this course to be well-structured, simple, and easy to follow. It provides clear explanations of key Claude Code features, including hooks, MCP, sub-agents, skills, memory, plugins (such as GitHub integration), @claude tags, and agentic workflows. The hands-on exercises made the concepts practical and easy to apply. I particularly appreciated the coverage of Claude Code best practices and workflow automation. The course encouraged learners to explore the official Claude Code documentation alongside the lessons. This helped reinforce the concepts and enabled a deeper understanding of each topic. Complex concepts were broken down into manageable and easy-to-understand sections.
By Rohit on 7/10/2026
It's a good course. What I liked most is that, besides explaining the concepts with examples, the instructor also walked through the official documentation throughout the course. That gave me more confidence and helped me understand how to go beyond the course material. With AI, it's easy to generate code, but understanding the official documentation helps us think beyond the course and apply the concepts in real-world scenarios. Nice work—keep it up!
By Zenko Machina on 7/9/2026
Quite useful to get you going and start using Claude in your activities; especially for a technical person. I would say that there could be more example usage i.e. creating agents rather than theoretical/documentation. Maybe having an overall project that ties in all the various features together. For example, building up the skills/tools/agents to perform code testing, debugging, fix and PR submission. etc. The author is also responsive to questions and is helpful. In either case, one of the better Claude courses available.
By Dirk Barreda on 6/26/2026
I enjoyed the course and learned quite a bit. However, since I tried to replicate everything that the instructor did in my own environment, my time invest was a multiple of the 11 hours of video material provided in the course. The material presented was relatively up to date as of when I took the course (Aug 2026).
By Prabhu K on 6/21/2026
Nice tutorial, the concepts were explained from the scratch which was really helpful. Thanks to the tutor!
By Darko Martinovic on 6/6/2026
Compared to Anthropic’s official courses, this one is by far the most comprehensive and should, in my view, be recommended by Anthropic itself. There are, however, a few gotchas. The author speaks English fluently, though certain pronunciation quirks — for example with words like “machine” or “environment” — can occasionally be misleading. This is secondary, but improving it would further elevate the course. Additionally, the field is evolving quickly: the flagship model is already at version 4.8 with many new features, which this course does not yet cover. Overall, it remains a highly recommended resource.
By Osman Cruz on 5/24/2026
Finished the course. Really easy to get through since instructor is focused on helping his audience learn the technical concepts and does not waste time with happy joyful slop like some of the less technical instructors tend to do on here. Instructor managed to go very in depth with all the Claude Code features while wasting no time, it went by quick but learned a lot.
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Overall Score : 92 / 100









