The 6 Levels of Claude Code Explained

A structured progression framework for Claude Code users, broken into six levels: prompt engineer, planner, context engineer, tool integrator, workflow/skills creator, and multi-agent orchestrator. Each level covers key skills to master and traps to avoid. Highlights include the importance of collaborative prompting over one-way commands, managing context window rot (degradation past ~100k tokens), surgical MCP/plugin selection, creating and optimizing custom skills, and scaling via git worktrees, sub-agents, and experimental agent teams where multiple Claude instances coordinate through a supervisor agent.