CLAUDE CODE PRE-FLIGHT CHECKLIST
Hands on the yoke.
Learn to fly it.
Eleven checks. Claude Code is the CLI that edits your files, runs your commands, and verifies its own work. This is where leverage actually starts. Run the checks in order — by the last one you'll have a CLAUDE.md committed, an Explore → Plan → Code → Commit loop burned in, and at least one hook guarding your repo.
SYSTEMS NOMINAL
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THE HINGE · based on Anthropic Academy's Claude Code 101
- 01READ →
What is Claude Code?
10 MIN · VIDEO - 02READ →
Installing Claude Code
8 MIN · HANDS-ON - 03READ →
Your first prompt
10 MIN · HANDS-ON - 04READ →
How Claude Code works
10 MIN · DIAGRAMMED - 05READ →
The CLAUDE.md file
12 MIN · HANDS-ON - 06READ →
Explore → Plan → Code → Commit
15 MIN · HANDS-ON - 07READ →
Context management
12 MIN · HANDS-ON - 08READ →
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
15 MIN · HANDS-ON - 09READ →
Subagents
12 MIN · HANDS-ON - 10READ →
Skills
10 MIN · VIDEO - 11READ →
Hooks
15 MIN · HANDS-ON - 12READ →
Pick up where you left off — sessions, logs, and Claude in parallel
15 MIN · HANDS-ON
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