---
title: "Claude Code: practical guides and workflows"
description: "Learn the Claude Code workflow: understand a workspace, build a first project and give recurring work durable context."
author: Power of AI
date: 2026-09-06
url: https://powerofai.ca/claude-code
---

# Claude Code: practical guides and workflows

Learn the Claude Code workflow: understand a workspace, build a first project and give recurring work durable context.

Build something you can actually use.

Learn the Claude Code workflow: understand a workspace, build a first project and give recurring work durable context.

## Start with your situation

### Claude Code: your first useful project

A folder. An idea. A working first version.

[Claude Code: your first useful project](/claude-code/first-project)

### Give Claude Code a project it can understand

Stop explaining the same project from scratch.

[Give Claude Code a project it can understand](/claude-code/project-context)

## In the handbook

### Claude Code: your first useful project

Start a real Claude Code project with a clear scope, an inspected workspace, a small first build and checks you can perform yourself.

[Claude Code: your first useful project](/claude-code/first-project)

### Give Claude Code a project it can understand

Use CLAUDE.md, compact task context and concrete verification to make Claude Code work more consistently across sessions.

[Give Claude Code a project it can understand](/claude-code/project-context)

## Connect it to a bigger project

- [Astra, Fable 5.1 and the model rumors: what matters on September 6](/journal/astra-fable-51-september-2026)
- [How to Use AI: The Complete Practical Guide](/guide/how-to-use-ai)

[Read the main AI guide](/guide/how-to-use-ai) | [Try the working showcase](/showcase).