Claude How To

The missing practical guide to mastering Claude Code

Claude How To fills the gap between Anthropic's feature documentation and what developers actually need to build real workflows with Claude Code. Where official docs describe what features exist, this repository shows how to combine slash commands, memory, subagents, hooks, and MCP servers into automated pipelines for code review, deployment, and documentation generation. The guide contains 10 tutorial modules with Mermaid diagrams, copy-paste configuration templates, and a progressive learning roadmap totaling 11–13 hours of structured content. Each module includes interactive self-assessment quizzes, and the entire guide is actively maintained to track Claude Code releases—currently synced to v2.2.0. Over 25 hook event types are documented with working examples, and there's a complete CLI reference for headless automation in CI/CD pipelines. Built by luongnv89 and released with an MIT license, Claude How To climbed to 18k stars in its first week—mostly organically through HN and X shares from developers frustrated with scattered official documentation. It represents the kind of community-built learning infrastructure that often outlasts the tools it documents.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

“The hook event documentation alone is worth bookmarking—25+ events with working examples is something the official docs simply don't have. The CLI headless automation reference for CI/CD is genuinely useful and hard to find elsewhere.”

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Skip

“Community documentation guides have a well-documented half-life: they go stale fast and create confusion when they drift from the actual tool behavior. The promise to 'sync with every Claude Code release' is optimistic given it's a one-person side project. Anthropic's own docs will eventually improve, making this redundant.”

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

“The fact that a community guide to using an AI tool hit 18k stars in a week tells you everything about the documentation debt the AI industry has accumulated. Claude How To is a symptom of a real problem—and a useful one while the official ecosystem catches up.”

The Creator

Content & Design

Ship

“The structured learning path with time estimates is a thoughtful design choice—most technical guides dump everything on you at once. Knowing upfront that advanced MCP configuration takes 5 hours lets you plan your learning rather than falling into a rabbit hole.”