How to Use CLAUDE.md, Skills & Hooks in Claude Code | Full Course Tutorial

Claude Code keeps forgetting your context — every session starts from scratch. In Episode 2 of this Claude Code full course, you'll learn exactly how to fix that and build a Claude Code setup that actually remembers who you are, what your project is, and how you work.

🎯 What You'll Learn

• How the CLAUDE.md file works as Claude Code's permanent persistent memory
• Best practices for structuring CLAUDE.md so it doesn't bloat and slow Claude down
• Progressive disclosure: how to reference external files instead of cramming everything into one file
• The difference between CLAUDE.md, memory.md, and session context
• What Skills (formerly slash commands) are and how to create your own custom ones
• How to build auto-invocable vs. user-invocable skills with real examples
• How Agents work in their own isolated context windows (without polluting your session)
• How to configure Hooks via settings.json to trigger shell commands on pre/post tool use events
• Plan Mode: what it is, when to use it, and how it protects your codebase
• A tour of the Claude Plugins marketplace for discovering community-built skills

📋 Prerequisites

• Watched Episode 1 of this Claude Code full course (content multiplier system build)
• Claude Code installed (any plan)
• Basic comfort with the terminal

🛠️ Tools & Concepts Covered

• CLAUDE.md file (project-level and global)
• Claude memory.md (user-level persistent memory)
• Claude Code Skills (custom slash commands)
• Claude Code Agents (isolated context, parallel execution)
• settings.json Hooks (pre/post tool use automation)
• Claude Plugins Marketplace
• Plan Mode

💡 Key Insight from This Episode

CLAUDE.md is deterministic — it loads the same way every time. But the instructions inside it are still interpreted by an LLM, which is probabilistic. That distinction changes how you write your rules. Must-follow constraints go at the top. Everything else uses progressive disclosure through referenced files. Treat CLAUDE.md like guidelines for a team, not a dump of everything you know.

Agents are different: they run in their own context window and don't pollute your session — making them ideal for specialist tasks you can delegate and run in parallel.

This is Episode 2 of the Claude Code Full Course by GenAI Unplugged. New episodes drop regularly covering real-world Claude Code setups, agentic workflows, and AI system building.

📺 CHAPTERS:
0:00 Claude Code Forgets Everything
1:00 Episode 1 Recap & Course Overview
3:05 CLAUDE.md File Deep Dive
11:19 Writing Effective CLAUDE.md Rules
15:32 Memory & Progressive Disclosure
20:51 Building Custom Skills
26:02 Claude Plugins Marketplace
28:07 Skills in Action (Live Demo)
31:12 Hooks & Settings.json Setup
36:24 Agents & What's Coming Next

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