Developer field guide

Install an agentic coding CLI on Friday evening and ship a real feature by Sunday.

One Weekend with Claude Code — A Developer's Field Guide to Agentic Coding

24 pages Screen-friendly A5, prints on A4 and US Letter Read on screen, or print First Edition, July 2026 Version 2026-07

You have seen developers hand a whole task to an AI in the terminal and watch it edit files, run tests, and open a pull request. This 24-page field guide is how you get there yourself — over one weekend, on a real repository of your own: install and a first safe session Friday, teaching the tool your project Saturday, and one real feature from empty diff to merged commit on Sunday, with the guardrails set and the bill kept sane throughout.

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What's inside

Friday: what an agentic CLI actually changes, a clean install, and a first read-only session that can't touch anything
Saturday: choosing the right first repository, and a real CLAUDE.md walkthrough that teaches the tool your project
The first real task, reviewed diff by diff — and what to do the moment it goes sideways
Permissions and guardrails: deciding what the tool may touch, and proving the fence holds before you trust it
When to interrupt and when to let it run — reading the session instead of hovering
Sunday: one complete feature end to end, commit to done, with a plan-before-code habit
Keeping the bill sane — a short pointer to the cost levers (covered in depth in our companion, The Token-Smart Developer)
"What broke for us": the real snags hit while writing the book, so you recognise them
A verified-commands appendix and a plain-language glossary

Who it's for

Developers curious about agentic coding who learn best by doing one real project
Anyone who wants permissions and guardrails set before trusting an agent with their code

Who it's not for

Complete non-coders — a real repository of your own is the whole point; Ship Your First App is the gentler start
Anyone unwilling to pay for the tool — the examples require a paid Claude plan, though the book names free-tier alternatives where they apply

The tool used in the examples requires a paid Claude plan (from roughly US$20/month as of July 2026); the book says so on page one and names the free-tier alternatives where they apply. Every shell command, flag, and install URL was executed against the version current the week the book was finalised (Claude Code 2.1.x, July 2026), and the book tells you to run claude --version and check the changelog, because these tools update weekly.

Guidance, not gospel — this is a practical organisation tool, not legal, tax, medical, or religious authority.