Claude Code Mastery: Build AI Agents, Automate Software Development, and 10x Your Productivity with Claude Code, MCP, and Modern AI Coding Workflows

By Amol Katkade

Stop typing every line. Start directing.

AI coding agents have crossed a threshold: they can read your codebase, plan a change, edit dozens of files, run your tests, and iterate on failures - at machine speed, under your supervision. The developers who master this way of working are shipping in afternoons what used to take weeks. The rest are fighting their tools and calling it hype.

The difference is technique. This book teaches it.

Claude Code Mastery is the definitive practical guide to Anthropic's Claude Code - the terminal-native AI agent redefining developer productivity. Written by a software architect who uses these tools daily on production systems, it goes far beyond "getting started" into the engineering discipline of agentic AI development.

Inside, you'll learn how to:
Install, configure, and master Claude Code across the CLI, VS Code, and CI pipelines
Engineer prompts that produce production-quality code - with a vault of 120+ field-tested prompts
Give your agent durable project memory with CLAUDE.md, and manage context like a pro
Drive real workflows: planning, multi-file refactoring, TDD, debugging, documentation, Git, and code review
Connect Claude to databases, browsers, and internal tools with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) - and build your own MCP servers
Build autonomous agents with the Claude Agent SDK, subagents, hooks, and headless mode
Ship four complete projects: an enterprise REST API, a RAG-powered AI chatbot, a developer assistant suite, and an autonomous bug-fixing pipeline
Run it all safely: security, prompt injection defenses, cost control, and team-scale adoption

With 32 chapters, hands-on projects, architecture diagrams, exercises, interview questions, and cheat sheets in every chapter, this is both a course you work through and a reference that stays on your desk.

Whether you're a software engineer, AI engineer, DevOps practitioner, architect, student, or engineering leader - the next decade of software development belongs to those who can direct AI. This book gets you there.

Master the agent. Multiply your output. Own the future of AI-powered software development.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMQ145DH
• ISBN13: 9798185688861
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"