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Claude Code for Citizen Developers

Agentic coding with Claude Code in the terminal and IDE: CLAUDE.md, subagents, hooks, MCP, CI pipelines and secure permissions.

Duration
2 days (14 hrs)
Format
Online or on-site
Language
German or English
Participants
open dates or exclusive for your team
Certificate
Certificate of attendance

Overview

“Claude Code for Citizen Developers” is a hands-on course for roles such as Business users with automation ideas in administration, sales, procurement or HR, Power users of Excel, Power Platform or similar low-code tools and Process owners and business analysts. Rather than learning Claude Code in the abstract, you work on tasks from your daily routine – with examples, exercises and templates from Citizen Developers & Low-Code.

Claude Code is Anthropic’s agentic coding assistant, working directly in your terminal and in popular IDEs. Rather than completing individual lines, it reads your repository, plans changes across multiple files, runs commands, executes tests and prepares commits. Over two days you will learn to use it with deliberate control: clear project instructions in CLAUDE.md, careful context management, and a workflow in which you set the direction as a developer and can trace every change the agent makes back to a clear intention.

The course is built around real engineering work: diagnosing bugs, delivering features, refactoring legacy code and filling gaps in test coverage. You will configure subagents for specialised tasks, enforce quality checks with hooks, connect external systems through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and capture team knowledge as reusable skills. Finally, you will run Claude Code headless in CI pipelines and define permissions, sandboxing and approval rules so that its use remains defensible even in security-sensitive environments.

Citizen developers are business users who build their own applications and automations without being professional software engineers. Until recently, low-code platforms quickly hit their limits whenever custom logic, integrations or data transformations were needed. AI coding tools push that boundary much further: a plain-language description becomes forms, workflows, scripts and small web apps, and AI explains error messages, formulas and expressions in understandable terms. Responsibility grows at the same time, because home-built solutions also process company data and need maintenance. In this course you learn to use vibe coding and AI agents to build useful solutions for your department, combine them sensibly with low-code platforms and stay within your IT governance rules.

The course is delivered live – either online in a virtual classroom or on-site in our training rooms in Munich, Salzburg, Berlin, Augsburg, Hanover, Bremen, Stuttgart and Kaiserslautern. We can also run it exclusively for your team.

Who is this course for?

  • Business users with automation ideas in administration, sales, procurement or HR
  • Power users of Excel, Power Platform or similar low-code tools
  • Process owners and business analysts
  • Members of digitalisation and innovation teams
  • IT leads setting up a citizen development programme

Typical challenges we address

  • Recurring manual tasks that IT has no capacity to automate
  • Low-code platforms hit limits with custom logic, integrations or data preparation
  • Little know-how on testing, documenting and running solutions safely
  • Risk of shadow IT without alignment with data protection and IT security

What you will be able to do

  • You use Claude Code for multi-step development tasks while keeping full control over every change.
  • You maintain a CLAUDE.md that effectively conveys project conventions, commands and architectural guidance to the agent.
  • You extend Claude Code with subagents, hooks, MCP servers and skills tailored to your team.
  • You integrate Claude Code into Git workflows and CI pipelines with traceable, test-backed results.
  • Build your own automations, forms and small applications for your department with AI support.
  • Combine low-code platforms with generated code for logic, data preparation and integrations.
  • Document, test and run your solutions in line with your IT governance rules.

Course outline

Day 1

Module 1 How Claude Code works
  • Installation, sign-in and use in the terminal, VS Code and JetBrains IDEs
  • Understanding the agentic loop: read, plan, act, verify
  • Using plan mode to agree on an approach before any code changes
  • Writing effective task briefs with goal, context and acceptance criteria
Module 2 Project context with CLAUDE.md and context management
  • Structuring CLAUDE.md at project, directory and user level
  • Documenting build, test and style conventions so the agent follows them reliably
  • Managing the context window with targeted file references, compaction and fresh sessions
  • Resuming sessions and breaking long tasks into manageable stages
Module 3 Extending Claude Code with subagents, hooks, MCP and skills
  • Defining subagents for code review, research or test generation
  • Using hooks to enforce formatting, linting or checks before and after tool calls
  • Connecting MCP servers for issue trackers, databases or internal documentation
  • Creating custom slash commands and skills for recurring team workflows
Module 4 Git workflows, testing and quality assurance
  • Creating branches, meaningful commits and pull requests with Claude Code
  • Test-first work: have tests written before the implementation
  • Reviewing diffs systematically and rejecting or refining changes
  • Organising parallel work with Git worktrees and multiple sessions

Day 2

Module 5 Headless operation, CI and security
  • Running Claude Code non-interactively in scripts and CI pipelines
  • Automated reviews and issue handling in GitHub or GitLab workflows
  • Configuring permission modes, allow and deny rules, and sandboxing
  • Handling secrets, prompt injection risks and organisation-wide policies
Module 6 Practice lab: Citizen Developers & Low-Code
  • Automating workflows
  • Building forms and small apps
  • Explaining formulas and expressions
  • Cleaning and transforming data
  • Connecting to interfaces
  • Documenting and testing solutions
Module 7 Data protection, quality & transfer to daily work
  • Home-built solutions also process company and employee data: you learn to respect GDPR requirements, IT approval processes, secure handling of credentials and the licence terms of platforms and generated code, so that no shadow IT emerges.
  • Ground rules for safe AI use in your team
  • Checking results: facts, sources, tests and the four-eyes principle
  • Personal action plan for the next 30 days
  • Open questions, outlook and resources for further learning

Practical scenarios from your field

Automating workflows

Describe approval processes, notifications and data transfers between email, spreadsheets, forms and business applications on low-code platforms, and have AI build the matching flows, expressions and conditions.

Building forms and small apps

Generate data entry forms, checklists or booking apps from a description, complete with validation, mandatory fields and simple data storage, and refine them step by step based on colleagues’ feedback.

Explaining formulas and expressions

Have complex Excel formulas, Power Fx or flow expressions explained in plain terms, track down errors and reliably write new calculations from a business description.

Cleaning and transforming data

Merge exports from different systems, remove duplicates, standardise formats and generate Python scripts or Power Query steps that make the preparation repeatable. Monthly preparation then takes minutes, not hours.

Connecting to interfaces

Use AI to understand how a REST interface works, configure connectors and set up simple API calls that bring data from business systems into your own solutions.

Documenting and testing solutions

Produce user guides, short technical documentation and test cases for home-built applications so colleagues and IT can understand, take over and keep running the solution.

Possible hands-on projects

Leave and cover planner

A small web app where team members enter absences, assign cover and give the team lead a monthly overview. Overlaps are flagged automatically.

Incoming invoice checker

A script that reads incoming PDF invoices, checks mandatory details and transfers the data into a structured spreadsheet for approval.

Request tracker

A simple ticketing tool for internal requests with a form, status history, assignments and automatic email notifications. Everyone keeps track of open and completed requests.

Prerequisites

You have hands-on programming experience in at least one language and are comfortable with Git and the command line. You are confident with office applications and spreadsheets; no programming skills are required, though experience with a low-code platform helps.

Technical requirements

Your own laptop with admin rights, Git, a Node.js runtime and an up-to-date editor; a Claude subscription or Anthropic API access is required for the exercises.

Data protection & compliance

Home-built solutions also process company and employee data: you learn to respect GDPR requirements, IT approval processes, secure handling of credentials and the licence terms of platforms and generated code, so that no shadow IT emerges.

Suggested dates

All dates are suggestions – your preferred date is always possible.

  • Tue, 24 November 2026 – Wed, 25 November 2026 Online Request
  • Thu, 3 December 2026 – Fri, 4 December 2026 Hanover Request
  • Wed, 16 December 2026 – Thu, 17 December 2026 Online Request
  • Thu, 7 January 2027 – Fri, 8 January 2027 Online Request
  • Tue, 12 January 2027 – Wed, 13 January 2027 Munich Request
  • Mon, 18 January 2027 – Tue, 19 January 2027 Online Request

Frequently asked questions

How is Claude Code different from traditional code completion?

Code completion suggests the next few lines, whereas Claude Code acts as an agent that handles whole tasks: it searches the repository, plans changes across several files, runs tests and commands, and corrects itself based on the results. You define the goal and review the outcome instead of steering every single line yourself.

Is Claude Code secure enough for enterprise use?

By default, Claude Code asks for approval before editing files or running commands. Permission rules, sandboxing, managed settings and hooks let you define precisely what the agent may do. During the course you learn to configure these mechanisms to match your security and data protection requirements and to assess risks such as prompt injection.

Does Claude Code work with my language and tech stack?

Yes. Claude Code is language-agnostic because it works with files, terminal commands and your existing build and test tooling. Whether you use Python, Java, TypeScript, Go, SAP-related code or infrastructure as code, what matters most is a well-written CLAUDE.md describing your commands and conventions. Each course variant adds the relevant domain focus.

Do I need programming skills to work with AI as a citizen developer?

No. You describe what your solution should do and the AI generates forms, flows, formulas or scripts. What matters is stating your requirements clearly and checking results systematically. In the course you learn the essential concepts such as data, logic, interfaces and testing so you can steer precisely and narrow down errors yourself.

How do we avoid shadow IT?

With clear rules rather than bans: approved platforms and tools, defined data classes, a simple register of home-built solutions and a route for handing over to IT once an application becomes business-critical. In the course you learn to apply such rules, and IT leads gain ideas for setting up a citizen development programme.

How much does “Claude Code for Citizen Developers” cost?

The course costs a flat €949 plus VAT per participant – whether online or on-site. This includes 2 training day(s) with a live trainer, course materials, a lab environment and a certificate of attendance.

Can I suggest my own date?

Yes. Our suggested dates are just a guide. In the request form you can always describe your preferred date or period in free text – we check availability and confirm within one working day.

Is the course online or on-site?

Both are possible: live online in a virtual classroom or on-site in Munich, Salzburg, Berlin, Augsburg, Hanover, Bremen, Stuttgart or Kaiserslautern. We can also run the course exclusively for your team.

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