Master Claude Code for Production Shipping · 20 min · Claude Code

Putting It Together — One Real Annoying Task

CLAUDE.md, a hook, and a subagent each proved themselves in isolation -- today decides whether they're actually more than the sum of their parts.

Hiring signal: Demonstrating a measurable before/after on a real task -- not just 'I configured some stuff' -- is the actual proof that a Claude Code setup is worth the time invested in it.

What you will learn

Combine CLAUDE.md, hooks, and subagents on one real task
Measure genuine before/after time or effort savings
Identify what to configure next

The Capstone Project

CLAUDE.md, a hook, a subagent, and a CI integration each proved themselves individually. Today, one real, previously-manual task runs through all of it — and you measure whether the whole setup was actually worth building.

Pick something genuinely annoying, not a demo task

The task has to be real, or this proves nothing
"Summarize this file" isn't a fair test of a configured setup — pick something you've actually done manually and found tedious: reviewing a PR for a specific category of risk, regenerating a changelog, checking a repo-wide convention after a refactor, or fixing a class of recurring lint failures. The measurement only means something if the "before" was a real, remembered cost.

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You've read the first 2 sections. The rest of this lesson covers Run it, end to end, through the configured setup, Ship it — plus a hands-on lab, quiz, and project artifact.

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