AI Ready

Pluralsight’s AI-Ready for Developers is a comprehensive program designed to help organizations empower their AI development teams beyond theoretical and foundational understanding of AI-assisted coding to full agentic orchestration. Participants are introduced to context engineering where they learn to curate inputs, set persistent memory, and scope permissions to control output quality. Then they work building custom workflows and connecting the agent to external systems using MCP integration. Last, participants work with multi-agent orchestration decomposing tasks across sub-agents and gating their execution behind human approval. The four part program series culminates in a 4-hour capstone coding challenge where participants apply all of these skills together—context, permissions, integrations, and orchestration—to build a complete agentic workflow on a real codebase.

The instructor- training (ILT) portions detailed below are integrated into the broader strategy of the AI-Ready program to ensure practical application and team alignment:

Level 1: Claude Code: Context Engineering Seminar
Level 2: Claude Code: Skills & MCP Integration Seminar
Level 3: Claude Code: Multi-Agent Orchestration Seminar
Level 4: Coding Challenge

As you review these seminars, please note:

THE SEMINARS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR TRAINING BUNDLES OR TRAINING CREDITS.
THEY ARE ONLY AVAILABLE WITH THE PURCHASE OF THE PLURALSIGHT CLOUD READY SOLUTION PACKAGE.

Contact your Pluralsight Account Executive for more information.

LEVEL 1: CLAUDE CODE: CONTEXT ENGINEERING | Seminar

Audience

This session is ideal for software engineers and developers who are already using or about to start using Claude Code in their roles on a daily basis

Objectives

After this session, participants will be able to:

• Curate context to control output quality
• Configure project memory and instructions
• Scope file/tool access with allow/deny permissions

Duration

90 minutes

Outline

Curating context

• What fills the context window
• Techniques for trimming and focusing context
• Using subagents and compaction to preserve quality

Memory and instructions

• CLAUDE.md fundamentals and file locations
• Writing effective project instructions
• Rules, imports, and multi-directory setups

Permissions and access control

• Allow, deny, and ask rules in settings.json
• Permission modes and evaluation order
• Safe defaults vs. bypass scenarios

LEVEL 2: CLAUDE CODE: SKILLS & MCP INTEGRATION | Seminar

Audience

This session is ideal for software engineers and developers who are already comfortable with core Claude Code usage

Objectives

After this session, participants will be able to:

• Build a custom Skill for a repeatable workflow
• Connect the agent to a system via MCP
• Choose between Skills, MCP, hooks, and plugins

Duration

90 minutes

Outline

Building custom Skills

• Anatomy of a Skill (SKILL.md, frontmatter, supporting files)
• Writing instructions for a repeatable workflow
• Testing and refining a Skill

Connecting via MCP

• MCP basics and transport types (stdio, HTTP)
• Adding and configuring an MCP server
• Using MCP tools in a session

Choosing the right extension point

• Choosing between Skills vs. MCP vs. hooks vs. plugins
• Matching the tool to the problem
• Bundling and sharing setups with plugins

LEVEL 3: CLAUDE CODE: CLAUDE CODE: MULTI-AGENT ORCHESTRATION | Seminar

Audience

This session is ideal for software engineers and developers who already build and use custom Skills and MCP connections in Claude Code

Objectives

After this session, participants will be able to:

• Decompose a task across specialized sub-agents
• Delegate safely with scoped, read-only sub-agents
• Gate agent execution behind human approval

Duration

90 minutes

Outline

Decomposing tasks across sub-agents

• When to split work into specialized sub-agents
• Defining a sub-agent (system prompt, tools, model)
• Delegating and returning results to the main session
  

Delegating safely with scoped agents

• Restricting tool access for read-only agents
• Isolated context vs. shared session risk
• Building a review/analysis sub-agent

Gating execution with human approval

• Where approval checkpoints belong in a workflow
• Using permission modes and hooks to require sign-off
• Auditing and reviewing agent actions before they proceed

LEVEL 4: CODING CHALLENGE

Participants will apply everything from the three prior sessions to build a production-style agentic workflow on a real codebase.Upon conclusion of the session participants will have gained experience setting up Claude Code that can be adapted directly to their own projects.

Audience

This session is ideal for software engineers and developers who have completed levels 1-3.

Objectives

After this session, participants will be able to:

• Build an agentic workflow end-to-end on a real codebase
• Engineer context and permissions to keep it reliable
• Integrate Skills and MCP to fit it to the stack
• Orchestrate sub-agents with human approval gates

Duration

4 hours