Claude Code — best practices

Area: Fundamentals · Level: Beginner

This video walks through the official best practices for working with Claude Code: how to structure your work, how to give the right context, and how to get consistent results from day one. It is the foundation everything else in the course builds on — the habits you see here come back again and again in later lessons.

What you'll learn

• How to structure a task before asking Claude Code for anything
• What context the agent needs to work well, and how to provide it
• The official practices recommended for day-to-day work with the tool
• How to move from occasional wins to consistent results
• The habits worth locking in from day one, before bad ones settle in

For whom

For anyone starting out with Claude Code who wants to begin with good habits instead of unlearning bad ones later. No prior experience with coding agents required — and it also works as a reset if you've been using the tool casually and results feel hit-or-miss.

After this video

Continue with the written lesson The Big Idea — the 7 rules: it turns these best practices into a complete working system, with concrete rules you'll apply in every session for the rest of the course.