Claude Code Engineering: Build, Automate, Test, and Ship Production-Ready Software with AI Agents, Subagents, MCP, Skills, and Advanced Workflows

By Marcus Whitefield

CLAUDE CODE ENGINEERING

Stop using Claude Code as just another coding assistant.

Modern AI-assisted development is moving beyond generating snippets and fixing isolated bugs. Claude Code can work across real codebases, coordinate specialized agents, connect to external tools, follow reusable skills, automate development tasks, and handle complex workflows with far less manual intervention.

Claude Code Engineering shows you how to turn those capabilities into a practical software development system.

Designed for developers, software engineers, technical builders, and AI practitioners, this book focuses on the workflows that matter when you are working with real projects, larger codebases, and increasingly complex development tasks.

Inside, you will learn how to:

- Build effective Claude Code workflows for real software projects
- Use subagents to divide complex engineering tasks and run specialized work in parallel
- Create reusable Skills that give Claude consistent instructions, expertise, and procedures
- Connect Claude Code to external systems and tools through Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Use hooks to trigger actions, enforce development rules, and automate repetitive steps
- Improve context management so Claude can work more effectively across large and complicated codebases
- Automate testing, debugging, refactoring, documentation, reviews, and other development workflows
- Combine agents, tools, skills, and automation into repeatable engineering systems
- Design workflows that let you delegate more work while keeping meaningful human oversight
- Build development processes that are faster, more consistent, and easier to scale

Rather than treating Claude Code as a simple prompt-and-response tool, you will learn how to engineer the environment around it so that AI can become an active part of your development workflow.

Whether you are refactoring an existing application, building new features, automating repetitive engineering work, coordinating multiple agents, or integrating Claude Code with your development stack, the goal is the same:

Spend less time on repetitive implementation and more time directing the engineering work that matters.

By the end of this book, you will have a stronger understanding of how to design practical Claude Code systems that can reason through tasks, use tools, coordinate specialized work, and operate within repeatable software engineering workflows.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HN5149V7
• ISBN13: 9798162505600
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"