Claude Code Deep Dives
14 deep dives into Claude Code internals. Hooks, skills, subagents, source code analysis, and advanced configuration.
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Claude Code Skills: Build Custom Auto-Activating Extensions
Build custom Claude Code skills that auto-activate based on context. Step-by-step tutorial covering SKILL.md structure, frontmatter, LLM-based matchin...
AI Agent Memory Degradation: Why Multi-Turn LLMs Collapse
LLMs lose 39% accuracy across 200K+ multi-turn sessions. Three mechanisms drive collapse and longer context windows fix none of them.
Your Agent Writes Faster Than You Can Read
Five research groups published about the same problem this week: AI agents produce code faster than developers can understand it. The debt is in your ...
Metacognitive AI: Teaching Your Agent Self-Evaluation
Most agent instructions define behavior. The missing layer teaches self-evaluation. False evidence gates, seven named failure modes, and hedging detec...
Context Engineering Is Architecture: 650 Files Later
Context engineering for AI agents across a 650-file, seven-layer hierarchy. Three production failures, real token budgets, and the system that survive...
Multi-Agent Deliberation: When Agreement Is the Bug
Multi-agent deliberation catches failures that single-agent systems miss. Here is the architecture, the dead ends, and what is actually worth building...
Why My AI Agent Has a Quality Philosophy
My Claude Code agent inherited every sloppy human habit at machine speed. I built 3 philosophies, 150+ quality gates, and 95 hooks. Here's what worked...
Two MCP Servers Made Claude Code an iOS Build System
XcodeBuildMCP and Apple's Xcode MCP give Claude Code structured access to iOS builds, tests, and debugging. Setup, real-world results, and honest less...
Claude Code + Cursor: What 30 Sessions of Combined Usage Taught Me
I tracked 30 development sessions using Claude Code and Cursor together. The data shows where each tool wins and where the combination fails.
The Ralph Loop: How I Run Autonomous AI Agents Overnight
I built an autonomous agent system with stop hooks, spawn budgets, and filesystem memory. Here are the failures and what actually ships code.
Commands, Skills, Subagents, Rules: What I Learned Organizing 139 Extensions
Claude Code offers four extension types. After building 95 hooks, 44 skills, and dozens of commands, I learned which abstraction fits which problem.
Context Window Management: What 50 Sessions Taught Me About AI Development
I measured token consumption across 50 Claude Code sessions. Context exhaustion degrades output before you notice. Here are the patterns that fix it.
PRD-Driven Development: How I Use 30+ PRDs to Ship with AI Agents
I've written 30+ PRDs for AI agent tasks. Here's where PRD-driven development works, where it fails, and how my template evolved over 6 months.
Claude Code Hooks: Why Each of My 95 Hooks Exists
I built 95 hooks for Claude Code. Each one exists because something went wrong. Here are the origin stories and the architecture that emerged.