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learn-claude-code
17-chapter Python course on building a Claude Code-style agent harness
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- MIT
- Last commit
- Oct 2026
- Language
- Python
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Overview
A tutorial repo that rebuilds the parts of a coding-agent harness one chapter at a time. It starts with a single while-loop and bash, then adds permissions, hooks, memory, subagents, task graphs, cron, agent teams, MCP, a workflow runtime and a goal loop. Each root-level chapter (s01 to s17) has a runnable code.py and Chinese and Japanese translations.
Who it is for: Engineers learning to build coding-agent harnesses in Python
Strengths
- Each chapter isolates one mechanism with a runnable code.py
- Covers permissions, hooks, memory, context compaction, MCP and agent teams in order
- Includes a legacy-to-current chapter mapping for older links
- Chapter READMEs in English, Chinese and Japanese
Weaknesses
- Teaching code, not an installable library or product
- Legacy and current tracks use different chapter numbers
- Long opinionated preamble before any code
- Setup, API key and model requirements not shown in the visible README
What it needs
- no GPU
- Needs LLM API with tool use (Anthropic-style messages API)
- Models: Claude
Quick answers
Is learn-claude-code open source?
Yes. Its code is on GitHub under the MIT license.
Does learn-claude-code need a GPU?
No, it runs without one.
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