Stop re-explaining your codebase to every AI agent — `cast-skills`
The annoying part of AI coding tools Every session, the agent forgets: your module boundaries the “every user belongs to an org” rule that lives in no…
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Can Claude Analyze My Portfolio?
If Claude can already search the web, read a 10-K, and explain what a rate cut does to long-duration equities, the fair question is why you would conn…
Getting Started with Claude Code and Playwright CLI: A Step-by-Step Guide
AI coding agents like Claude Code are changing how SDETs approach browser automation. Instead of writing every locator and assertion by hand, you can …
Claude Code Skills for safe PHP and JS package updates
It's not abnormal for projects to go weeks, or dare I say months, between dependency updates. And when people finally do update, they do it in full fo…
How to Pay for Claude Pro with Crypto When Your Card Gets Declined (2026)
If you've tried to subscribe to Claude Pro and hit a wall at checkout — card declined, "payment method not supported," or a charge that mysteriously f…
Loop Engineering: Fine-Tuning the Guardrail That Fired Wrong
The check had been green for a week. It greps every diff under src/ for import mock , because production code has no business importing a mock library…
MoFlo: local-first agent orchestration for Claude Code
Claude Code is the best coding agent I've used. But every session starts from zero. It re-reads the same files, re-derives the same conclusions, and f…
Your AI agent says "done." Who checks that from outside the agent?
The 90% that never lands There is a failure mode almost everyone building with agents has hit, and it rarely gets named as its own layer. The agent ru…
Part 2: When Nobody Grades Their Own Homework
TL;DR Some things can't be checked with a number, like whether an animation feels right. So a second, read-only agent grades the first one against a w…
I Gave an AI Agent an Impossible Target to See If It Would Cheat
TL;DR A "loop" is not an agent grading its own work. It is an external script that re-runs the agent, plus a separate check the agent cannot edit. I t…
Part 3: A Loop Whose Job Is to Do Nothing
TL;DR This loop runs on a schedule and succeeds by doing nothing almost every night. The pass/fail check is plain deterministic code, with no AI in th…
Our AI coding bill quietly tripled. Here's what we learned fixing it.
A few months ago I opened our cloud bill and had that small stomach drop moment every engineer knows. Our AI coding spend had roughly tripled. Not bec…
Second pack shipped: senior-engineer workflows as Claude Code slash commands
I shipped a second small pack this week: 10 Claude Code slash commands, 4 subagents, 3 hook recipes and 2 templates, built from the same discipline as…
Stop Hooks as Hard Constraints: Enforcing Claude Code Behavior Outside the Model
Originally published on hexisteme notes . I run a fleet of Claude Code agents, and for a long time I tried to enforce behavioral rules the obvious way…
Always-On Cost and Plan-Quota Visibility for Claude Code: Building a Statusline
In my last post, "Letting Claude Code improve itself autonomously — autopilot" , I covered how to keep autopilot from running away, but I glossed over…
How to Know If Your Claude SKILL.md Actually Works
I spent today shipping a tool I've wanted for months. If you build with Claude, you've probably written a SKILL.md file. And you've probably shipped i…
Starting My AI Journey: Claude 101 and AI Fluency (Framework and Foundations)
Welcome! I'm Shreya, a data professional, and I started this blog to document my journey into AI and share every lesson, failure, and breakthrough I e…
I Built an AI Agent with Claude's Tool-Use Loop (Web Search, SQL, and More)
"AI agent" gets thrown around so much I figured I should just build one instead of reading more threads about it. The core idea turned out to be small…
Claude Code's Auto Mode Now Default on Major Cloud Platforms
Anthropic shipped Claude Code 2.1.207 on Friday, and the one-line changelog entry hides a more interesting story than the headline suggests. Auto mode…
Claude Shortcuts !
🚀 Automation & Scripting -p / --print: Non-interactive mode. Runs a query, outputs the result to stdout, and terminates immediately (essential for…
AWS Just Made Claude Code Cloud-Native: The Official AWS MCP Server Plugin
AWS released an official Agent Toolkit that plugs Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor directly into your AWS account through a single MCP server. Instead o…
The AI orientation tax: it's missing context, not discipline
You have eleven things in flight. Three of them are "almost done." You can't remember which three. Every morning you spend the first ten minutes rebui…
The Ultimate Claude Masterclass: 13 Power Features Changing the AI Game
The Ultimate Claude Masterclass: 13 Power Features Changing the AI Game Artificial Intelligence is no longer just about asking questions and getting t…
The New Currency Is Tokens - How to save Tokens
New Currency Forget cloud bills — in 2026, the line item engineers actually argue about is tokens. Every move a coding agent makes (reading a file, ru…
Teaching Claude Code to Write and Grow Its Own Skills: A Self-Replicating Agent Environment
Last time I wrote about splitting Claude Code's memory into four layers . This is the follow-up: a setup where Claude Code itself discovers "reusable …
The Day Claude Stopped Inventing My Schedule: Injecting Ground Truth into the Vault with the Google Calendar API
This is a follow-up to the Vault auto-ingest pipeline I mentioned in my previous post, " Turning conversation logs into skills ." This time I want to …
GPT-5.6 launched and developers immediately hit their usage limits. The fix is not a bigger plan
Yesterday OpenAI shipped the GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) and folded Codex into a unified ChatGPT desktop app. Within hours, the loudest thread o…
Notes on running an MCP server in production
Most MCP tutorials stop at a single stdio tool. These notes cover what I had to change once a server of mine had actual users, in the order the proble…
# Reflection – Week 2
" Shifting from Prompt Engineering to Infrastructure Orchestration " Week 2 was a mix of excitement, curiosity, and a little bit of frustration. I lea…
Claude Code vs. Codex: Which AI Coding Assistant Is Better?
Artificial intelligence has transformed software development. Instead of simply generating code snippets, modern coding assistants can understand enti…