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Prerequisites

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Architecture Overview — What's Actually in the Claude Code Repository

Mapping the true purpose of anthropics/claude-code as the extensibility and operations layer — plugins, automation, sandboxing, and enterprise configuration

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The Plugin System — Commands, Agents, Skills, and Hooks

Deep dive into the four component types that form Claude Code's layered extension model, with real examples from official plugins

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Multi-Agent Orchestration — How Feature-Dev and Code-Review Coordinate AI Agents

Three distinct orchestration patterns — phased human-in-the-loop, validation pipeline, and self-referential loop — emerge from the official plugins

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Hooks in Practice — Security Monitoring, the Hookify Rule Engine, and the Ralph Loop

Three real-world hook implementations showcase the full spectrum from 15-line shell scripts to configurable rule engines

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GitHub Automation — AI-Powered Issue Management at Scale

How claude-code uses Claude Code itself to triage, deduplicate, sweep, and close thousands of issues through 12 workflows and sandboxed AI agents