Claude Code 101 — Zero-Employee Organizations, Session 2 (ITAM)

Materials for the 90-minute deep introduction to Claude Code: how an AI agent actually works, how to brief one, and how to structure a project so the agent gets better every week instead of starting from zero.

Map

claude-code-101/                 ← this repo: the course session (frozen, canonical)
├── slides/claude-code-101.md    ← the marp deck (speaker notes inside)
├── 00-agent-loop/               ← a complete agent in ~120 lines of Python
├── exercises/HOMEWORK.md        ← week 2 homework (4 exercises + stretch)
└── cheatsheet.md                ← one-page reference for during class

xolo-consulting                  ← separate TEMPLATE repo: your own copy of the org

The demo organization lives in its own template repository — github.com/profrodai/xolo-consulting — because you will own it and grow it for the next 15 weeks. Click "Use this template" there to create your copy (don't fork; you want a clean history of your own). Weekly course additions arrive on the upstream template as tags (week-03, week-04, …) for you to diff and pull in.

Before class (students)

1. Install Claude Code and log in — see docs.claude.com → Claude Code → Quickstart. Verify with claude --version.
2. Python 3.10+ available (python3 --version).
3. Create your repo from the xolo-consulting template, clone it, then:

   cd xolo-consulting && python generate_data.py

4. Optional (for 00-agent-loop): an Anthropic API key.

Render the slides

npm i -g @marp-team/marp-cli
marp --html slides/claude-code-101.md -o slides/claude-code-101.html   # or --pdf
# the --html flag is required — the deck uses inline-styled layouts

The through-line of the course

Every week the xolo-consulting/ repo grows: more skills, more subagents, more hooks, tighter controlling. By week 17 it should run its recurring operations with the human only at the signature points. The repo is the organization; the .claude/ directory is its constitution, org chart, and SOP binder.