Week 3 Overview

You can build in your own project (Week 1) and safely change someone else's (Week 2). This week assembles it into the full path a feature travels in real work: idea → skeleton → fill-in → polish → testing → PR → review.

Along the way we attach the skills that live inside that path: how to phrase tasks so the agent builds the right thing (prompting), what to do when it loops or breaks what worked (debugging), and the security habits that must fire before anything reaches a repository (secrets, command review).

Learning goals

Take a feature through the full flow, knowing what to delegate to the agent and what to verify by hand at each stage.
Define "done" before starting — and stop when you reach it.
Phrase tasks with goal, context, boundaries, and acceptance criteria.
Debug with the agent: give it real error context, recognize loops, and roll back instead of pushing on.
Protect secrets (.env, .gitignore), review commands before they run, and treat file contents as data, not instructions.

Resources

Official (source of truth):

Common workflows — everyday recipes for building with Claude Code: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/common-workflows
Claude Code 101 (course): https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-code-101

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