Web, Planning, and Your First Real Files
Goal — Use Claude Code's built-in web abilities, try planning before building, and create your first real files — with understanding.
By the end — A real index.html that Claude built and you understand line by line, committed to git.
1Let Claude search the web
Claude Code has web search built in. Ask it to look something up and it reports back — no extra setup, no browser.
Search the web for what a favicon is and summarize it.2Let Claude read a specific page
Claude can also fetch a single page directly. Between search and fetch, it can research on its own.
Read the page at example.com and tell me what is on it.3Try planning before building
Ask Claude to propose an approach first, so you can steer before any code exists. You review, adjust, then let it proceed. This is a light taste of plan mode, which you use fully in Phase 9.
Plan out a simple home page for this site before writing anything.4Build your first real file
Now let Claude write it. Approve the change when it asks — your empty index.html gets real content.
Create a simple, clean index.html for this practice site with a heading and a short paragraph.5Understand what it built
The guided habit in full: have Claude walk you through the file. You now understand your own index.html, even though you did not type it.
Walk me through the index.html you just wrote, line by line, in plain terms.6Save the snapshot
Leave Claude Code so you are back at your normal terminal prompt.
/exitThen commit your first Claude-built work into your history and push it.
git add . && git commit -m "Add home page content" && git pushNative web first. Claude Code can search the web and read pages on its own, with no extra tools. In Phase 6 you add Playwright to drive a full browser, but that is only for special cases like testing your own site. For looking things up, these built-in abilities are the default.
Recap — You used Claude's built-in web search and reading, planned before building, and shipped your first real page — one you understand and have committed.