OpenCode Tutorial for Beginners: Setup, Agents, Skills & MCP

🔥 Join Maker School & get customer #1 guaranteed: https://skool.com/makerschool/about 📁 Get all Claude course resources 100% free: https://skool.com/maker-zero/about ➡️ If this is your first video: I'm Nick Saraev. I run LeftClick, an AI growth agency. We've done work for large brands you're likely familiar with, like Mr. Beast, Anthropic, OpenAI, and a few others. In plain English: I help people build systems that generate leads, close deals, and scale businesses, mostly using new AI models like Claude. I also make videos about how to do all of that here on YouTube. It hasn't always been this way. My family immigrated from a Soviet bloc country (People's Republic of Bulgaria) in the 90s. They worked extremely hard, and we were broke for a very long time. I grew up wishing for more security, stability, and freedom over my own life. I don't have a programming degree, and never took formal education for IT or workflows. I learned it all myself from YouTube videos like you're watching now. As for my path: I started my first business at 19 in college. We threw events (mostly parties) at campus bars, and charged people for entry. That failed to provide me enough money to pay my bills, so at 21, I started another business, a door-to-door marketing agency. From there, every year, I would start several companies, over 10 in total. I did this in a variety of industries, like e-commerce, photography, videography, SaaS, credit repair, etc. Each grew slightly more profitable, until, at 25, I would start 1SecondCopy, a content writing company. A friend and I eventually scaled that to over $90,000/m. It was my first taste of financial independence, and the reason I'm here today. Since starting my journey, I've grown a fair bit of capital. To diversify my income, at 30, I began investing in other businesses and advising companies on how to grow in the AI era. These include SaaS businesses, like Clairvo, agencies like Dental Connect, and more. Collectively, the businesses that I own outright or are a part of generate over $10 million per year. This returns far more than the 5-10% you would get in the stock market, but also requires a lot of my active time. There's a tradeoff there, but I greatly prefer active investing, where I have control over the entities I'm a part of. It wasn't easy to get here. But I did in the end! For anyone on their own entrepreneurial journey: I wish you luck, happiness, and perseverance. You can make it! Summary ⤵️ The end-to-end, definitive course on Claude Code for beginners! I'll take you through a full four-hour masterclass where I start by teaching you how to set up and install Claude Code in a tutorial, how to configure your IDE or integrated development environment (we'll use Antigravity), how to utilize your CLAUDE.md file as your project brain, how to build your first project in Antigravity using Claude Code in under 15 minutes, advanced Claude Code functionality including hooks, slash commands, and more. I also teach you how to spin up multiple Claude Code instances and have them work on your behalf; how to parallelize work using sub-agents; how to use Git work trees to accomplish many hours of work in just a few minutes; how to conserve tokens and use context management to crush your coding and software projects; how to deploy things to the cloud using Modal and related services, and in general... how to be awesome at Claude Code! Hope you enjoy the tutorial. Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction to the Claude Code Tutorial 00:01:07 Learning the Basics of Claude Code 00:03:44 Setting Up Claude Code 00:08:05 Terminal vs. Graphical User Interface 00:12:23 Understanding IDEs 00:13:53 Exploring Visual Studio Code 00:19:11 Getting Started with Antigravity 00:24:01 Building Your First Web App with Claude Code 00:30:29 Utilizing the CLAUDE.md File (Project Brain) 00:34:40 Approaches to Website Design in CC +Antigravity 00:41:47 Importance of Verification in AI 00:54:42 Advanced Claude Code Functionality 00:55:13 Understanding the .claude Directory 02:01:24 Adjusting the Proposal Design 02:01:55 Testing Payment Functionality 02:05:20 Leveraging GitHub for Project Management 02:06:12 Setting Up the Project 02:07:50 The Power of Automation 02:13:53 Context Management Explained 02:19:56 Understanding MCP Tools 02:27:23 Strategies for Token Management 02:35:29 Creating Skills for Efficiency 02:41:15 The Structure of Skills 02:44:39 Building a New Skill 02:50:58 Introduction to Model Context Protocol 02:58:15 Evaluating Token Usage in MCPs 03:09:07 Exploring Claude Code Plugins 03:11:08 Introduction to Sub-Agents 03:12:15 Transforming Skills into Sub-Agents 03:14:14 Scaling Email Classification 03:18:54 Creating Useful Sub-Agents 03:26:27 Understanding Agent Teams 03:32:59 Enabling and Using Agent Teams 04:02:34 Utilizing Git Worktrees 04:03:08 Deploying APIs with Modal

An overview and starting point for Claude Code. Want to learn more about coding with AI? Check out my course: https://www.traversymedia.com/coding-with-ai Get Cluade Code To Follow Along: https://clau.de/TraversyMedia Get the Neon free plan: https://get.neon.com/6uuwMG3 Follow Neon to not miss course giveaways: - X/Twitter: https://x.com/neondatabase - Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/neondatabase Github Gist With Prompts: https://gist.github.com/bradtraversy/9937e0ecfc8a5b269ce6a885636670dc Crypto Dash Repo: https://github.com/bradtraversy/crypto-dash Timestamps: 0:00 - intro 2:23 - What Is Claude Code 3:56 - Installing Claude 6:43 - First Launch 7:26 - Models & Usage Limits 10:44 - Effort 11:14 - Using Claude In VS Code 12:16 - The First Prompt 16:10 - Shell Mode 17:30 - Modes 19:15 - Settings & Permissions 22:55 - VS Code Extension 24:05 - Refactoring Code 27:03 - Context, Tokens & Clearing 29:20 - Global Sessions 33:14 - Working on an Existing Project 35:48 - Claude.md File & /init 39:28 - Plan Mode 44:58 - Adding Favorites Feature 48:05 - Skills 53:27 - MCPs 57:51 - Sub-Agents

Claude Code Tutorial: Beginner to Advanced in 20 Minutes. Join our FREE community with free prompts & guides: https://www.skool.com/ai-launchpad/about Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:10 - What is Claude & Setup 3:54 - Plan mode & prompting 6:18 - First results & Iteration 8:18 - Claude.md & MCP 12:12 - Context management & extended thinking 16:10 - Deploy your builds 17:07 - Skills & Hooks & Routines 18:39 - Outro For business inquiries including sponsorships and collaborations, please email: business@zinhomedia.com

🚀 Join Ai Foundations - https://aifoundations.io/join-carter This is the only Claude tutorial you’ll ever need. With this guide you can go from beginner to pro using Claude. I cover the basics like signing up, settings, memory, prompting and we work our way up to the intermediate features like Claude projects, artifacts, inline visualizations, data analytics and more. Then we finally dive into Claude desktop, where I teach you how to use Claude Cowork with computer use, scheduled tasks, and connectors for Notion, Gmail and Google Calendar. I even show you how to build Claude skills from scratch. After you have a beginner's understanding of Claude we dive into Claude Code. I show you how to deploy a real website in Netlify and even control Claude through a remote environment on Anthropics servers. We cover github, environment variables, pretty much everything you need, explained in beginner terms. I even cover exporting your ChatGPT memories and bringing them over to Claude. If you've been hearing about Claude AI, Claude Cowork, or Claude Code and wondering how it all fits together: this is the video you’ve been searching for. I walk through everything step-by-step leaving no stone unturned. Utilize the chapters and resources below to get the most out of this video. If it’s your first time watching, I recommend watching all the way through at least once, then coming back to spend extra time on specific chapters! Resources Mentioned: Join Ai Foundations - https://aifoundations.io/join-carter DBS Framework Skill - https://aifoundations.io/resources/the-dbs-framework-skill Claude Code Mastery - https://aifoundations.io/products/claude-code-mastery Sign up for Claude - https://claude.ai Chapters: 0:00 - Claude Tutorial Intro 0:25 - How to Use This Guide 0:40 - Claude Pricing Comparison 1:22 - Sign Up for Claude 1:49 - Claude Onboarding 3:10 - Claude Chat Layout 3:50 - General Settings 4:53 - Notifications 6:00 - Claude Appearance 6:35 - Claude Voices 6:51 - Privacy and Billing 8:02 - Claude Memory 8:26 - Exporting Memories from ChatGPT 9:21 - Tool Settings 10:14 - Claude Artifact Settings 11:23 - Code Permissions 12:10 - Connector Settings 13:00 - Language Settings 13:15 - Claude Status and Support 13:50 - Gifting Claude 14:23 - Keyboard Shortcuts 14:40 - Claude Models 16:15 - Attachments and Connections 17:10 - Writing Styles in Claude 17:53 - Talking to Claude Voice 19:00 - Organizing Chats 19:40 - Incognito Chats 20:20 - GCAO Prompt Template 21:50 - Prompting Claude 24:50 - Ai Foundations Offers 25:38 - Claude Chat Search 26:34 - Claude Projects Guide 27:18 - Project Instructions 29:40 - Projects Guide Continued 30:56 - Claude Artifacts Library 32:37 - Creating Claude Artifacts 36:40 - Sharing Artifacts 37:15 - Mini App Artifacts 38:35 - Inline Visualizations 39:00 - Visualizing Data Analytics 41:15 - Claude Desktop 42:45 - Claude Cowork Setup 44:00 - Claude Quick Chat 45:00 - Cowork Settings Continued 47:00 - Organizing Files in Cowork 48:20 - Claude Computer Use 49:30 - Cowork Scheduled Tasks 51:22 - Cowork Projects 52:40 - Cowork Prospecting Project 55:00 - Claude in Chrome Extension 56:10 - Cowork Project Results 57:05 - Claude Dispatch Setup 57:50 - Cowork Connectors 58:20 - Claude Notion MCP Connector 59:30 - Using Connectors 1:00:18 - Claude Gmail Connector 1:02:40 - Claude Skills 1:04:18 - DBS Framework Skill 1:05:30 - Uploading Skills 1:06:00 - Creating a Basic Skill 1:07:36 - Testing the Recipe Skill 1:09:25 - Creating an Advanced Skill 1:10:20 - Google Calendar Connector 1:12:24 - Testing the Calendar Skill 1:13:10 - Claude Code Prerequisite 1:14:20 - Claude Code Mastery 1:15:23 - Two Ways to Use Claude Code 1:15:48 - Claude Code Environments 1:17:45 - Claude Code Models 1:18:10 - Claude Code Effort 1:18:34 - Claude Code Permissions 1:18:50 - Claude Code Enhancements 1:20:20 - Folder Setup 1:21:30 - Creating Claude MD 1:22:12 - Opening Files Quickly 1:22:31 - Building a Personal Website 1:25:15 - Planning with Claude Code 1:28:05 - Plan Mode in Claude Code 1:28:45 - Editing My Site 1:29:19 - The Complete Website 1:30:00 - Deploying with Netlify Connector 1:31:12 - Setting a Domain Name 1:31:45 - Adding Environment Variables 1:34:00 - Testing Email Connection 1:34:30 - Creating Remote Skills 1:36:18 - Github Repo Setup 1:37:00 - Initial Commit in Github 1:38:00 - Claude Code Cloud Environments 1:39:00 - Claude Code on my Phone 1:39:55 - Netlify + Github Deployment Setup 1:41:00 - Updating My Website 1:42:00 - Website Complete 1:42:20 - Claude Code Scheduled Tasks 1:44:24 - Scheduled Tasks with Skills 1:47:30 - Updating My Website from Anywhere 1:49:50 - Claude Code Terminal 1:50:30 - Claude Code Commands 1:51:10 - Claude Code Terminal Test 1:51:58 - Final Thoughts #claude #claudecowork #claudecode

Learn to use Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK (formerly Claude Code SDK) for AI-powered development workflows! https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview https://x.com/trq212 **AI Summary** This workshop by Thariq Shihipar (Anthropic) details the architecture and implementation of the **Claude Agent SDK**. The session moves from high-level theory—defining "agents" as autonomous systems that manage their own context and trajectory—to a live-coding demonstration. Shihipar builds an agent "Harness" from scratch, implementing the core **Agent Loop** (Context Thought Action Observation), integrating the **Bash tool** for general computer use, and demonstrating **Context Engineering** via the file system to maintain state across long tasks. **Timestamps** 00:00 Introduction: Agenda and the "Agent" definition 05:15 The "Harness" concept: Tools, Prompts, and Skills 10:10 Live Coding Setup: Initializing the Agent class and environment 15:45 implementing the "Think" step: Getting the model to reason before acting 25:20 The Agent Loop: connecting `act`, `observe`, and `loop` 33:10 Tool Execution: Handling XML parsing and tool inputs 42:00 The "Bash" Tool: Giving the agent command line access 49:30 Safety & Permissions: "ReadOnly" vs "ReadWrite" file access 58:15 Context Engineering: Using `ls` and `cat` to build dynamic context 01:05:00 The "Monitor": Viewing the agent's thought process in real-time 01:12:45 Handling "Stuck" States: Feedback loops and error correction 01:21:20 Multi-turn Complex Tasks: Building a "Research Agent" demo 01:35:10 Refactoring patterns: "Hooks" and deterministic overrides 01:48:39 Q&A: Reproducibility, helper scripts, and non-determinism 01:50:31 Q&A: Strategies for massive codebases (50M+ lines) 01:52:00 Closing remarks and future SDK roadmap * **Evolution of AI Capabilities:** Shihipar argues we are shifting from **LLM Features** (categorization, single turn) to **Workflows** (structured, multi-step chains like RAG) to **Agents**. He defines agents as systems that *"build their own context, decide their own trajectories, and work very autonomously"* rather than following a rigid pipeline. * **The Claude Agent SDK Architecture:** The SDK is built directly on top of **Claude Code** because Anthropic found they were *"rebuilding the same parts over and over again"* for internal tools. * **The Harness:** A robust agent requires more than just a model; it needs a "Harness" containing Tools, Prompts, a **File System**, Skills, Sub-agents, and Memory. * **Opinionated Design:** The SDK bakes in lessons from deploying Claude Code, specifically the "opinion" that general computer use (Bash) is often superior to bespoke tools. * **The Agent Loop & Intuition:** Building a successful agent loop is described as *"kind of an art or intuition"*. The loop generally follows a **Gather Context Take Action Verify Work** cycle. Shihipar emphasizes that this loop allows the agent to self-correct, a capability missing from rigid workflows. * **Strategies for Determinism (Hooks):** During the Q&A, a technique for controlling agent behavior is discussed: **Hooks**. * If an agent hallucinates or skips a step (e.g., guessing a Pokemon stat instead of checking a script), a hook can intercept the response and inject feedback: *"Please make sure you write a script, please make sure you read this data."* * This enforces rules like "read before you write" without retraining the model. * **Scaling to Large Codebases:** For massive codebases (50M+ lines), standard tools like `grep` or basic context window stuffing fail. * **Semantic Search Limitations:** Shihipar notes that while semantic search is a common solution, it is *"brittle"* because the model isn't trained on the specific semantic index. * **Solution:** He recommends good **"Claude MD"** files (context files) and starting the agent in a specific subdirectory to limit scope, rather than trying to index the entire 50M lines at once. --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/TqC1qOfiVcQ-claude-agent-sdk-workshop Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIE New York, October 12–14 — the first AI Engineer Finance mainstage summit - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney ---

An LLM is an incredibly powerful brain that knows everything about humanity and nothing about you or the software you run. This video walks through the four buzzwords that turn that raw brain into a system you can trust: agent harness, loop engineering, LLM Ops, and eval. No jargon, step by step, technical or not. You can build anything. You can learn anything. 💪 Timeline 0:00 Intro: the 4 AI agent buzzwords 0:42 What an AI agent run actually is 1:52 The memory system: procedural, semantic, episodic 3:37 What "harness" really means (the horse) 5:07 Storing and updating memory (databases, skills, summarizer agent) 8:28 Retrieval: RAG, SQL vs semantic search 10:00 Tool calling and why agents loop 10:52 Loop engineering and end-loop guardrails 13:21 A Claude Code hooks example 14:18 Eval and LLM Ops: why you need them 15:55 Tracing every run (Langfuse, LangSmith) 16:43 Evaluation: LLM as a judge 17:20 Diagnosing what broke 18:16 The gate: ship the fix or fix the bug 18:57 Zoom out: the full system 19:53 Wrap up Launch Full-Stack App Template: https://github.com/ShenSeanChen/launch-mvp-stripe-nextjs-supabase My AI Agent Startup AutoManus.io is an AI sales lead manager for made-to-order product sales. We embed directly where conversations happen (WhatsApp, email, web chat) to capture inbound, automate follow‑ups, and kill CRM busywork; live with 4 pilots and 2 contracts in motion, pre‑seed backed by Character VC. Focused on US/UK/Germany, raising to expand engineering and scale deployments. ☕️ Buy me a coffee: https://buy.stripe.com/5kA176bA895ggog4gh - X: https://x.com/ShenSeanChen - Sean's Discord: https://discord.gg/tvECErKcFr - AutoManus Discord: https://discord.gg/5HhcNjCR - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shen-sean-chen - Github Link: https://github.com/ShenSeanChen - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sean_ai_stories Sub Count when launched: 13,050 Top Github Repos - LaunchMVP NextJS,Supabase,Stripe (1015 stars): https://github.com/ShenSeanChen/launch-mvp-stripe-nextjs-supabase - ReactNextJSTips (114 stars): https://github.com/ShenSeanChen/yt-react-nextjs-tips - DeepResearchAgentBackend (70 stars): https://github.com/ShenSeanChen/yt-DeepResearch-Backend - SupabaseTipsKanban (64 stars): https://github.com/ShenSeanChen/yt-supabase-tips-kanban - RAGVectorDB (56 stars): https://github.com/ShenSeanChen/yt-rag - KimiK2Claude (37 stars): https://github.com/ShenSeanChen/yt-kimi-k2-claude - DeepResearchAgentFrontend (33 stars): https://github.com/ShenSeanChen/yt-DeepResearch-Frontend - AgenticRAG (13 stars): https://github.com/ShenSeanChen/yt-agentic-rag You Can Build Anything Playlist (Full-Stack Dev Without CS Degrees) - Core7: 95% React/NextJS Use Cases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZzFlAjz4rA&list=PLE9hy4A7ZTmpGq7GHf5tgGFWh2277AeDR&index=16 - Core6: 95% Supabase Use Cases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnoq2tIif3s&list=PLE9hy4A7ZTmpGq7GHf5tgGFWh2277AeDR&index=15 - Core5: StripeNextJSSupabase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad1BxZufer8&list=PLE9hy4A7ZTmpGq7GHf5tgGFWh2277AeDR&index=8 - Core4: AuthSupabaseGoogle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZAU3ClAWWE&list=PLE9hy4A7ZTmpGq7GHf5tgGFWh2277AeDR&index=6 - Core3: FastapiGCPPro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3sfqpzzo-U&list=PLE9hy4A7ZTmpGq7GHf5tgGFWh2277AeDR&index=5 - Core2: SupabaseHero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0kmgkyPsVQ&list=PLE9hy4A7ZTmpGq7GHf5tgGFWh2277AeDR&index=4 - Core1: LaunchAnApp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ2izvGG4tQ&list=PLE9hy4A7ZTmpGq7GHf5tgGFWh2277AeDR&index=3 - Launch WhereToMeet w/ GoogleMaps, Calendar, Supabase, Cursor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xMjX1QxGUY&list=PLE9hy4A7ZTmpGq7GHf5tgGFWh2277AeDR&index=2 - Launch EncourageMe w/ Cursor, Supabase, Vercel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnvL4xa2DHA&list=PLE9hy4A7ZTmpGq7GHf5tgGFWh2277AeDR