Claude Code workflow tutorial and coding agent comparison

The Coding Sloth reviews Claude Code as a terminal coding assistant that also has IDE and web interfaces. The tutorial focuses on project instructions, reusable skills and ways to manage token use. His feature rankings and reports of usage limits reflect his own experience.

He describes using CLAUDE.md for project context and coding preferences, including importing an agents.md file. Skills hold repeatable workflows; he recommends choosing a small set that fits your coding style. For larger tasks, he favors plan mode and suggests using Opus to plan and Sonnet to implement.

Verification is central to his workflow. He recommends writing important tests before implementation, running type checks and linters, and checking frontend work through browser interaction and screenshots. He reserves MCP connections for tasks that require access outside the codebase.

For context management, he advises starting a fresh session for each task, naming relevant files in prompts and stopping unnecessary research. He reports poorer results in long conversations and recommends specifying what to retain when compacting. Later sections cover recurring tasks, subagents and Git worktrees, with a warning that parallel agents can consume usage limits quickly.

The closing comparison covers Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Cursor and T3 Code. These are workflow alternatives; the tutorial does not demonstrate local model execution or offline operation.