AI & Tooling
Building with AI coding tools: Claude Code plugins, skills, agents, and the workflows that grow up around them.
The grill-me Skill for Claude Code
A look at Matt Pocock's tiny, viral grill-me skill: instead of coding your idea straight away, Claude interviews you one question at a time until the plan has no ambiguity left.
Loop Engineering in Claude Code: Designing the System That Prompts the Agent
Loop engineering is the shift from prompting an agent step by step to designing a system that prompts it for you. Here is what that means in Claude Code, the building blocks it already ships, a worked example, and an honest look at when it is worth the tokens on a subscription.
Claude Code Hooks, by Example
CLAUDE.md asks Claude Code nicely. Hooks make things happen for certain. A short, practical tour of how hooks are wired, built around two that I actually run: one that installs dependencies on session start, and one that filters noisy command output before it reaches the model.
Getting More Out of Claude Code: Prompting and Token Economy
A practical guide to driving Claude Code well: how to prompt for fewer wrong turns, how to keep the context window healthy, and a straight answer to whether running Opus 4.8 at max effort on everything is actually a good idea.
How to Build a Claude Code Plugin
A hands on guide to packaging your Claude Code workflow as a plugin. We build a real conventional-commits helper with a slash command and an auto-invoked skill, then publish it through a marketplace and version it for release.