How Deep Should Nested Subagents Go? Rethinking My Delegation Tree After Claude Code's 5-Level Limit
Claude Code subagents can now spawn their own subagents, up to five levels deep. I rebuilt my automation around nesting and settled on three levels — here is why.
When Your Edited SKILL.md Doesn't Take Effect — Hot-Swapping Claude Code Skills with /reload-skills and Auto-Loaded .claude/skills
A practical routine for hot-swapping Claude Code skills without restarts: /reload-skills, SessionStart hooks, and version stamps that show which SKILL.md is live.
This Week at Claude Lab: Failures Without Error Messages, and the Guardrails That Catch Them
Editor's notes on five new posts: stale temp-file contamination, .bak files swept up by git add -A, PreToolUse screening hooks, and two Android dialog-flow redesigns.
Stopping Claude Code Before It Runs a Destructive Command — a PreToolUse Screening Hook
How I wired a PreToolUse hook that screens every Bash command Claude Code is about to run: the settings.json setup, the Python screening script, what exit code 2 really does, and the false positives I tuned out over several weeks.
Clearing Crashlytics 'Missing dSYM' Warnings with Claude Code: A Field Memo
Right after moving Firebase to SPM, my Crashlytics reports stopped symbolicating and showed raw addresses. Here is how I narrowed down the Missing dSYM cause with Claude Code and rebuilt an upload path that does not break again.
Moving Firebase From CocoaPods to SPM With Claude Code as a Partner: An Implementation Memo
A record of migrating Firebase from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager in an indie iOS app. What I handed to Claude Code, what I decided myself, and the Crashlytics dSYM trap I hit along the way.
What to Do When Claude Code Hits the Context Window Limit
Long Claude Code sessions eventually hit the 200k token limit and stall. Here's how to use /compact, --continue, and session design patterns to keep development moving without losing context.
Claude Code vs. Claude in Chrome: Where I Draw the Line in Daily Ops
Running apps solo means constantly hopping between an editor and a browser, and that hopping quietly drains your focus. Here is how I split work between Claude Code and Claude in Chrome over a month, plus the rule I use when a task straddles both.
Designing Skills That Stabilize Output: Template Fixing and Decision Guides in Claude Code
A practical design guide for stabilizing wobbly Claude Code skill output: stating when to use it, decision-guide tables, fixing quality with references templates, and traceability rules, with code from real operations.
The Second Half of My SKILL.md Wasn't Being Read: Keeping It Under 200 Lines
Sparked by an observation that Codex CLI stops reading SKILL.md at around 220 lines, a look at how long an agent actually reads, and how to keep SKILL.md under 200 lines by offloading detail into references.
Authoring Dynamic Workflows: Building Reusable Research Pipelines with phase / agent / pipeline
A hands-on guide to writing your own Claude Code Dynamic Workflows: the phase / agent / pipeline / parallel primitives, locking outputs with JSON Schema, porting the adversarial-verification pattern, and designing for token cost.
Why git Says detected dubious ownership in repository — and How to Get Past It
An automation that ran fine yesterday suddenly dies on detected dubious ownership in repository. Here is what actually triggers it, the safe.directory fix, and how it differs from a real Permission denied.