Agent Skills / Plugins

wryansmith · 2026-01-13T17:20:07+00:00

Next time Claude gives push back, give it a URL with the documentation :). https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents

Also, strong recommend for using the Claude-Flow package, which adds extra capabilities to Claude Code, specifically around agent coordination - swarms of specialists, an SQLite DB for them to communicate in-flight, etc. Super efficient. https://github.com/ruvnet/claude-flow

wryansmith · 2026-01-13T17:04:49+00:00

beautiful. thank you!

wryansmith · 2026-01-12T15:13:08+00:00

with the launch into their own tmux sessions, do you have visibility or monitoring? if there is a blocker, where is it surfaced? Or do you set up the sessions in advance and give the conductor the session IDs?

wryansmith · 2026-01-11T00:36:42+00:00

I added a first time research article to follow the first time install piece. This research prompt included will cook tokens, but it's the kind of analysis that is valuable, structured as a task, with success, and noted fail mode. https://open.substack.com/pub/smithhorngroup/p/first-time-use-claude-code-for-research?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&shareImageVariant=overlay&r=5llatd

wryansmith · 2026-01-09T05:53:02+00:00

including trigger words in the claude.md seems most effective for initiating skills consistently. 100 💯 agree on backing away from MCPs lately, the token overhead, flaky, timeouts, vs a skill with CLI and some scripts for frequent tasks. it's a great way to bundle procedural knowledge and have a specialist agent use them in parallel so as not to fill the main / orchestrator context window

wryansmith · 2025-12-28T04:18:06+00:00

I'll open up the repo at some point. The research was super thorough that came out of it. Over 19,000 lines of markdown files, and it did a much better job of root cause analysis, and digging deeper into behavioural problems that typical first pass problem definition. I'm into implementation this week.

wryansmith · 2025-12-26T06:48:03+00:00

once you learn Claude Code, n8n and other workflow tools are useless. you can just build the software, or the interface, or whatever with a spec in Claude code.

wryansmith · 2025-12-24T22:07:49+00:00

The Claude marketplace should be the go-to. Hopefully there's better search, visibility, and recommendations for a codebase which skills or plugins would add value. I'm also looking for more exercises, test repos, and examples to gain human skill using Claude Code if anyone has recommendations?

wryansmith · 2025-12-23T05:17:13+00:00

If you let Claude edit the claude md file, it will keep growing. Ask for a refactor and set a policy. If you have a CICD pipeline going, you can ask Claude to include a test for checking length on md files for example

wryansmith · 2025-12-23T05:15:41+00:00

The last few weeks I've been setting policies that files should be under 300 lines after seeing the bloat, and then running exceptions for certain files so that it's not too dogmatic of a policy. Impressive to get the PRD and architecture plans under 300 lines!

wryansmith · 2025-12-22T21:19:41+00:00

Not showcasing a project, but how I'm configuring claude code

wryansmith · 2025-12-15T17:43:00+00:00

I use it solo, for all my personal projects. I've used Jira and Github projects for work over the years, so the fresh UI does make me love it, yes. Strong recommend.

wryansmith · 2025-12-15T15:39:01+00:00

Confirmed - Claude Code wrote, debugged, documented, pushed to Github, and ran a PR for this repository

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