Master 95% of Claude Code in 36 Mins (as a beginner)

A concise tutorial showing how to build, test, and deploy a Claude Code automation that scrapes YouTube analytics, produces reports, and delivers branded PDFs or slides.

– Interface: Install Claude Code in VS Code, open a project, and add a claude.md system prompt.

– WAT framework: Workflows (markdown SOPs), Agents (coordination), Tools (Python scripts) — separate probabilistic reasoning from deterministic execution; store secrets in .env.

– Plan & test: Use plan mode to refine requirements, run pipelines to fetch YouTube data, generate charts, export to Sheets, and iterate.

– Deploy: Push to Modal for scheduled or webhook runs, run security reviews, monitor logs, and update workflows as needed.

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Cloud Code has been allowing me to build things that used to take me hours in just minutes.

This is a three-layer framework: workflows, agents, tools.

The agent is self-healing — it runs, finds errors, fixes them, and updates the workflow.