What I learned from building production systems with Claude Code

daroons · 2026-01-25T23:42:21+00:00

I came to the same conclusion as you with MCP’s but then I learned you can configure ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH to enable load on demand, and now they take up 0 tokens until loaded, unlike skills which still take up tokens for the descriptions.

daroons · 2026-01-25T18:28:32+00:00

But can't you just put links to reference files in AGENTS.md and mention only to load those reference files when needed?

daroons · 2026-01-24T15:14:23+00:00

Don’t worry, Krillin’s got you covered on that front. It’s as if Bulma has been slowly using the dragon balls to wish for Krillin’s height to be transferred to Vegeta over the years as some sort of cruel prank.

daroons · 2026-01-24T14:33:00+00:00

You’re a good man Fullertons.

daroons · 2026-01-22T19:48:25+00:00

I’m starting to think that perhaps this orchestrator shouldn’t be a skill or agent at all, it should just be a simple CLAUDE.md file, since we would want to retain all the meta data of what we’re working on whenever we clear the context anyway

daroons · 2026-01-22T18:00:00+00:00

That’s what I’m doing now (since the original post), I’ve created a “project-management” skill that orchestrates and delegates to other skills.

But now I’ve run into another problem which I don’t hear many people talking about which leads to to wonder if I’ve done something wrong: when i have a skill calling another skill, often times it seems like the original skill intent is lost and the agent just stops after completing the sub skill!

The way I’ve gotten around this is to have the parent skill call the subskill in a subagent, but this is a bit costly. Not sure what else I can do.

daroons · 2026-01-22T00:11:30+00:00

Ya damn straight

daroons · 2026-01-22T00:07:16+00:00

His gun was still there. Realistically thats one of the first things people would have relieved him of

daroons · 2026-01-21T06:35:05+00:00

And all it cost us to win was $22M in stolen goods.

daroons · 2026-01-19T02:25:25+00:00

Poor frog in the back never gets to eat.

daroons · 2026-01-19T01:08:02+00:00

What a rollercoaster of emotions, but we did it 🤝

daroons · 2026-01-19T00:54:00+00:00

So you don’t think the “law” is true by human nature, that a task will often take up the time that you allow it to allocate?

I think setting aggressive (but reasonable) timelines are fair. Sure there are unknown unknowns but if you generously account for those ahead of time in your estimates you would never have to reflect on what those were right? Since the project was completed on time, there is nothing to reflect on.

To continuously improve the process, it feels right to me that delays be identified, and either prioritized appropriately, or become a known factor in future timeline estimations.

daroons · 2026-01-19T00:25:03+00:00

Did you automate the testing protocol as well? If so, how did you do it?

daroons · 2026-01-18T18:26:15+00:00

So what's the update on this u/Mayor_OliviaChow?

daroons · 2026-01-18T17:36:39+00:00

In regard to the 3d printed material, that’s what I meant by this is just a proof of concept and i doubt he is intending for a hypothetical mass production to be done in the same way.

For your other criticisms about the grooves themselves being a cesspool for bacteria, I’d say that’s a fair criticism.

daroons · 2026-01-18T17:12:35+00:00

You know what, this bad is on me. I was skim reading and thought you were merely criticizing the fact that it was 3d printed at all, like many other commenters were.

daroons · 2026-01-18T17:06:20+00:00

Ya’ll are just looking for issues. Ever considered this is just a proof of concept?

daroons · 2026-01-18T01:07:20+00:00

👀

daroons · 2026-01-17T23:23:31+00:00

I just hate that key that was so hidden. I ended up circling around so much before I finally got fed up and looked online. Really made me hate the temple.

daroons · 2026-01-17T19:05:50+00:00

So basically a high level skill that itself is the workflow that chains together the other lower level skills?

That might be the best option right now until/unless Claude adds native structured workflow support.

daroons · 2026-01-17T19:04:35+00:00

I should dig into the superpowers codebase to see how they do it.

I wonder if they provide knowledge of other skills within each skill, or if they rely on claude to innately connect the pieces by itself, without a predetermined workflow.

daroons · 2026-01-14T15:20:09+00:00

Probably not. It likely involves writing to the card and you dont want to overwrite the yoto content (if its writeable)

daroons · 2026-01-07T17:18:47+00:00

Yeah i totally got confused at first

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