My Claude Code Skills in Production: What the Audit Taught Me
A Claude Code skill is a Markdown file you drop into ~/.claude/skills/ . It describes a complete workflow: when to trigger it, how to execute it ste…
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Claude Code's 17 Official Skills: the Rule vs the Practice
Anthropic's docs are clear: a SKILL.md should be under 500 lines. Their own docx skill is 590. I read all 17 of Anthropic's official skills, frontma…
I Versioned the Way I Think. Then I Forced It to Comply.
One morning I pasted four principles into my CLAUDE.md , the global instruction file Claude Code reads at the start of every session. "Think before…
RHoiScribe: Not Teaching AI HOI4 — But Teaching It Not to Break Things
If you’ve ever worked on a Hearts of Iron IV mod, you’ve probably run into a very familiar kind of frustration: The AI output looks perfectly reason…
Why your agent ignores its skill body but obeys the system prompt
You edit a skill's prompt to fix a behaviour. You confirm the change is in the file the runtime loads. You restart. The agent does the old thing any…
5 Claude Code Skills Every ADHD Developer Needs
I have built 114 Claude Code skills. Most of them are engineering plumbing. But five of them exist for one reason only: my executive function has sp…
Two agent skills hit GitHub trending the same week. Skills are becoming the new packages, and the dependency graph nobody is managing will bite by Q4.
The signal hidden in this week's GitHub trending Two agent-shaped repositories cracked the daily GitHub trending board this week. The first is mvanh…
Are Claude skills safe in 2026? What the Snyk ToxicSkills audit actually found
{/* JSON-LD schema is generated server-side in app/blog/[slug]/page.tsx , do not re-add an inline block here, it crashes<br> MDX&#39;s Aco…
Claude Code Hooks vs Skills: When to Use Which
Originally published on rikuq.com . Republished here for Dev.to's readers. Claude Code shipped Hooks and Skills near each other in 2026, and they ge…
Claude Code Skills Explained: What They Are & When to Use Them (2026)
Originally published at claudeguide.io/claude-code-skills-overview Claude Code Skills Explained: What They Are & When to Use Them (2026) Claude…
Applied Scientist Skills Companies Want in 2026: A comprehensive analysis on 3,146 active postings
The Applied Scientist Title Hides Two Very Different Roles "Applied Scientist" reads like a single job title, but it isn't. Inside the same keyword…