CLAUDE CODE

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

A long-running coding agent is only useful if the environment around it can queue tasks, capture logs, checkpoint state, verify behavior, limit cost, and recover from failure.

Skills turn a general coding agent into a trained teammate by packaging runbooks, scripts, examples, and domain-specific judgment into reusable instructions.

GitHub trending is full of agent skill frameworks. The real shift is not bigger prompts or more agents. It is turning team process into inspectable, reusable operating instructions.

I told an agent to improve the site every 10 minutes and went to sleep. Here is what 12 new repos, 60 PRs, and three goofs taught me about overnight orchestration.

Claude Code does not have to call Anthropic's API. Here are five working patterns for running it through your own gateway, on your own models, in your own VPC, with full audit logs and cost control.

Agent runs are opaque. TraceTrail turns a Claude Code JSONL into a public share link with a stepped timeline of messages, tool calls, and tokens.

A curated list of the Claude Code skills worth installing in 2026, with real install paths, what each one does, and how to build your own when nothing in the directory fits.

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.

Claude Code hooks are powerful but discovery and install is a manual JSON-paste exercise. Hookyard is a directory plus CLI that makes it one command.

A curated directory of 312 Claude Code skills, plus Pro tools for authors who want analytics, version pinning, and a real submission flow.

Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5.5, the new Codex CLI vs the Claude skills ecosystem. An opinionated April 2026 verdict on which terminal agent to reach for, by job.

A repo-root DESIGN.md gives Claude Code, Codex, and other agents the design rules they need to honor so generated UI does not drift into generic territory.

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.

Two quality-of-life tools we built this week for Claude Code daily drivers: a SKILL.md linter and a VS Code status bar that shows live LLM spend.

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.

Four Claude-Design-adjacent repos entered the trending week with a combined 8,300+ stars. Huashu-design, open-codesign, awesome-claude-design, cc-design. Here is what is actually happening, and why the pattern matters.

Interactive TUI dashboard that shows exactly where your Claude Code and Cursor tokens are going, in real time.

The primary command-line entry point for Claude Code sessions.