Working with Claude Code
I audited my prompts for a model that reads literally
Running Anthropic's prompt-audit over 2,700 lines of Claude Code steering before moving to Fable 5.1. The grep for pressure language hit once. The cruft was drift and changelog phrasing, and seven of the eight recommended prompt snippets were already in the harness.
7 Sep 2026
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8 min read
Working with Claude Code
The Claude Code security-guidance plugin, pushed to its limits
I had Anthropic's always-on security plugin installed for a month and assumed it was reviewing every turn. Its own log said otherwise. What each layer actually does, how far its configuration goes, and the one hook that says no.
6 Sep 2026
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8 min read
Working with Claude Code
OpenKB: knowledge that compiles
Most 'chat with your docs' tools retrieve fragments at query time. OpenKB compiles the synthesis once, at ingest - into a Markdown wiki you can read, diff, and ship as an installable Claude Code skill.
30 Aug 2026
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5 min read
Working with Claude Code
Explain like I'm five, on tap
I ran the /eli5 skill over a Jinja2 learning session and got back a self-contained, illustrated artifact. Here is what the skill is, why writing the five-year-old version sharpens your own understanding, and where it fits a learn-then-teach workflow.
23 Aug 2026
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4 min read
Working with Claude Code
Embeddings, 384 Dimensions, Three at a Time
I built a local instrument to look at embedding space, and most of what I assumed turned out to be wrong: nothing is orthogonal, no individual dimension means anything, and king minus man plus woman does not give you queen.
13 Aug 2026
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10 min read
Working with Claude Code
Claude code insights report
Claude Code's /insights command handed me a mirror: 82 sessions of my own habits, scored. Here is what it got right about how I work, and the one thing that quietly costs me the most.
11 Aug 2026
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5 min read
Working with Claude Code
I brokered my sign-in through Keycloak, and broke my own owner check
Putting a self-hosted identity server in front of LinkedIn deleted 240 lines of workaround and turned PKCE back on. It also handed out a privilege escalation — because the claim never changed, but the trust underneath it did.
8 Aug 2026
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7 min read
Working with Claude Code
Three agents, one repository: how Claude Code uses git worktree
I gave three agents a worktree each and watched what landed on disk — the pid inside the lock file, the worktree that erased itself completely, and the shared site-packages that no amount of git isolation was ever going to protect.
2 Aug 2026
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6 min read
Working with Claude Code
Seven ways to steer a coding agent — one of them is binding
I had written the same rule three times, which is a diagnostic, not a wording problem. Splitting my Claude Code config across the layer that fits each instruction: CLAUDE.md 250 to 163 lines, six path-scoped rules, and two hooks that cannot be talked out of it.
29 Jul 2026
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13 min read
Working with Claude Code
73 skills tried, three still on disk
Claude Code keeps a usage ledger nobody reads. After 511 sessions I opened mine: 73 skills invoked, 31 of them exactly once, three still on disk. The survivors all have one thing in common.
28 Jul 2026
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6 min read