Claude Code Practical Workflows – CLI, Planning, Worktrees, and Automation
Lesson 4: Worktrees, CLI Use, and Automation Prompts
Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
- Explain why worktrees reduce edit collisions.
- Draft a CLI-style task that can run without conversation.
- Write a safe recurring automation prompt.
Lesson Content
Worktrees and parallel sessions are useful when tasks should not collide. They let separate work happen in separate checkouts or sessions. Students should still merge carefully and avoid running multiple agents against the same files without coordination.
CLI and automation workflows work best with explicit input, output, success criteria, failure behavior, and notification rules. Autonomous tasks cannot ask clarifying questions in the middle, so vague prompts become risky.
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