Advanced Claude Code: Skills, MCPs, Hooks, and Multi-Agent Workflows

Intended Audience: Faculty who have their Claude Code development environment set up and working, and are ready for more advanced techniques.

The session is for faculty who have already installed Claude Code and are ready to go beyond the basics. We'll work through skills (folders Claude Code discovers automatically when a task pattern matches), MCP integrations (connections to Google Drive, GitHub, databases, and other services), and custom slash commands and hooks. We'll cover design patterns for structuring a context folder so all of these pieces work together, and end with multi-agent workflows. We will cover when complex agent orchestration is worth the setup, and what kinds of problems it actually solves.  We will also discuss how to incorporate third-party AI tools using APIs.