
Claude Code Agent Teams, Subagents, and MCP: The 2026 Playbook
Claude Code is turning into an orchestration layer for agent teams. Here is how subagents, MCP, hooks, and long context fit together in 2026.
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Claude Code is turning into an orchestration layer for agent teams. Here is how subagents, MCP, hooks, and long context fit together in 2026.

Agent tool design: why intent-shaped tools beat REST endpoint mirrors, cutting context and tool menu tax while returning reviewable receipts.

Apps SDK (now ChatGPT plugins) is MCP plus an optional web component rendered in ChatGPT. How the server, the UI resource, auth and publishing actually work, with code adapted from OpenAI's quickstart.

Build MCP servers that connect Claude to your databases, APIs, and tools. Architecture, TypeScript SDK code, debugging, and the production gaps the spec doesn't cover.

The open-source MCP servers worth a permanent slot in your config, each with what it does, why it matters, and copy-paste setup for Claude Code and Cursor.

Hospitals still ship HL7 v2 pipes between systems in 2026. Here is how to wire Claude Code as a careful, HIPAA-aware migration agent that takes them to FHIR.

Five DD stack recipes that compose: persistent agent filesystems with agentfs, auto-snapshots, gated skill libraries, eval suites, and a recursive MCP host.

Claude Context gives coding agents semantic code search over MCP. The real test is whether retrieval makes agent work cheaper, more reviewable, and verifiable.

MCP servers are stdio-only black boxes. MCP Lens proxies the JSON-RPC stream, captures every frame, and serves a local inspector at localhost:4040.

The second half of our agent tooling release: distribution, validation, and ergonomics layered on top of the first six. Six small CLIs, one through-line.

Ten private tools shipped overnight - observability, skills, hooks, prompts, and evals - aimed at the agent infrastructure gap small teams keep falling into.

From Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 to Andrej-karpathy-skills and EvoMap - the AI dev tools actually shipping the last 30 days, with commands, links, and pricing.
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