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Claude Code: Up and Running

Harness the Power of Agentic Coding

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    254 pages

  • Release Date

    30 January 2027

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Summary

Claude Code is Anthropic’s agentic coding tool for the terminal, designed as an autonomous agent rather than a suggestion engine. It reads files, writes code across multiple files, executes shell commands, works with Git, and connects to external services through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). If you’re comfortable in the terminal, but new to agentic AI tools, this book is your starting point. You’ll learn what the documentation doesn’t cover: where Claude Code looks for CLAUDE.md files, h…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9798295900648
Author:Ken Kousen
Publisher:O'Reilly Media
Imprint:O'Reilly Media
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:254
Release Date:30 January 2027
About The Author

Ken Kousen

Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, software developer, and international speaker who has spent more than two decades helping engineers build production systems in Java, Groovy, Kotlin, and the Spring Framework.

As President of Kousen IT, Inc., he delivers technical training and consulting to engineering teams worldwide. As Professor of Practice in Computer Science at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, he teaches advanced software engineering and runs the Applied AI Center’s student-cohort program.

His previous O’Reilly titles include Kotlin Cookbook, Help Your Boss Help You, and Gradle Recipes for Android, among others. His current technical work centers on agentic AI engineering – including MockHub, a Spring Boot MCP-based platform he built to teach agentic commerce patterns end-to-end. He writes the weekly Tales from the Jar Side newsletter on Substack and runs a YouTube channel of the same name.

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