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Half the Cycle: Vibe Coding Vol 1 - Setup Complete: Master CLAUDE.md, Memory, Hooks, Skills, and Subagents with Claude Code
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Series: Half the Cycle: Vibe Coding, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Your Claude Code demo blew everyone away. Then you tried to use it on a real project - and spent three days fixing the same mistake fifteen times. The problem isn't Claude Code. It's that you never set it up. This is Volume 1 of the Half the Cycle: Vibe Coding series - the complete setup guide that separates AI toy from AI teammate that ships.
Because 80% of the Claude Code productivity gain comes from the first 20% invested in configuration. This is 15 chapters spanning installation through the four production pillars - Memory, Hooks, Skills, and Subagents - with the exact CLAUDE.md templates, hook scripts, and skill catalogs that make Vibe Coding actually work.
Master the Four Pillars - With Working Examples- CLAUDE.md: layered rules (project - org - personal) - same file works solo or 50-person team
- Memory: cross-session context surviving compaction, plus auto-memory writing preferences unprompted
- Hooks: PreToolUse / PostToolUse / SessionStart automation, incl. prevent-overwrite hook that saved this book's manuscript
- Skills: promote repeated instructions to reusable skills - with a 20-skill starter catalog (/investigate, /qa-only, /design-review, more)
- Subagents: parallel work + confirmation-bias defense - self-verification is where AI coding silently breaks
- Part 1: Why Vibe Coding - the three principles of halving (Plan, Automate, Verify)
- Part 2: Installation - CLI, IDE integration, authentication on macOS/Linux/WSL
- Part 3: Mastering CLAUDE.md - absolute rules vs. reference rules, the layered hierarchy
- Part 4: The four pillars end-to-end - with working code, not theory
- Part 5: Field techniques - the three-phase process, verification subagents, tool chain automation
- Same-mistake repeat rate: measured before/after hook setup - down 78%
- Session context loss on window reset: routine → rare with Memory
- Instruction re-typing: near-zero after promoting to skills
- Verification confidence: subagent second-opinion pattern catches 40%+ of self-verified errors
- A layered CLAUDE.md hierarchy capturing project - org - personal rules
- A prevent-overwrite hook (the actual script that saved this book's manuscript)
- A skills catalog of 20 patterns you'll invoke daily as of 2026
- A subagent verification workflow that catches errors your main loop misses
- A Plan → Execute → Verify three-phase process integrated with tool chains
- Developers who tried Claude Code, hit a wall, and want to know what went wrong
- Teams standardizing AI-assisted development across engineers
- Anyone who's typed the same instructions into Claude ten times and wants it to just remember
- Solo builders shipping side projects who want the AI to work at 2 AM without babysitting
Every AI coding post ends at install it and go. This book starts where they end. Every recommendation carries a working example: exact CLAUDE.md lines, exact hook scripts, exact skill definitions. Type what's in the book - it runs.
PrerequisitesTerminal comfort (bash/zsh), a code editor, one real project to speed up. No prior Claude Code or AI/ML background needed - Chapter 4 starts from install.
The SeriesVol 1: Setup Complete (this book - foundation) - Vol 2: Backend Practice - Vol 3: Frontend Practice. Read Vol 1 first, or standalone if setup is your only pain point.
Stop treating AI as autocomplete. Set it up, halve your cycle.
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