Five Filters I Use Before Wiring a Claude Code Skill Into My Daily Workflow
Public Claude Code Skills keep multiplying. As an indie developer running a few tech blogs through Claude Code, I share the filters that decide which Skills stay in my daily workflow — and which ones I quietly remove after a few days.
Composing Claude Code Skills — Building Automation a Single Skill Can't Reach
A practical guide to going beyond one-skill-at-a-time and composing multiple Claude Code Skills into real workflows. Pipeline, branching, and meta-skill patterns with full implementation examples and the failure modes you should design against.
Codify Your Writing Voice as a Cowork Skill: A Personal Brand Style Guide Pattern
How to capture your own writing voice — vocabulary, rhythm, structural quirks — as a Cowork Skill, using a three-step loop of observation, SKILL.md authoring, and falsification testing, plus a small helper script that turns the numbers into a list of places to re-read.
How to Automate Game Development with Claude Code × unity-mcp — A Complete Workflow from Concept to Release
Learn how to combine Claude Code with unity-mcp to automate Unity game development. The hcg-workflows skill set provides an 8-phase workflow from planning to deployment.
Finding and Installing Claude Code Plugins from a Marketplace — Read What's Inside Before You Trust It
A practical walkthrough for discovering and installing Claude Code plugins from a marketplace. Beyond the /plugin commands, it covers how to read the bundled contents before you install, and how to choose between User and Project scope.
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.
Putting an Autonomous Librarian on Top of Claude Code × Obsidian — Operating Notes From Running Four Sites Through a Three-Layer Knowledge OS
Starting from Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea, I redesign a Claude Code × Obsidian autonomous knowledge OS against the actual shape of running four AI tech blogs in parallel. The article covers the three-layer storage, ingest/compile Skills, Dataview monitoring, and a weekly audit job — all sized for real production use.
Catching Template Phrases Before They Ship: grep Guards in Claude Code SKILL.md
Even with detailed prompt instructions, generating articles every day eventually lets template phrases slip through. I added grep-based guards to the final step of my Claude Code SKILL.md so that violations block the push and force the model to rewrite. Here's what changed after one week.
Designing Claude Code Skills That Actually Run Unattended — Three Patterns to Avoid Permission-Dialog Stalls
I learned the hard way that Claude Code skills can silently freeze in scheduled runs because of permission dialogs. Here are three implementation patterns that keep file work, path detection, and recovery fully autonomous — distilled from a month of running content automation across four sites.
From Handy Tool to Development Backbone: Five Operational Pillars for Claude Code
Claude Code is not just a coding assistant — it can become the backbone of your entire development process. Here are the five operational pillars that turn it from a helpful sidekick into the engine of your workflow.
Honest 6-Month Review of Claude Cowork — What Actually Worked for an Indie Developer
A candid 6-month review of Claude Cowork from an indie developer's perspective. Covers scheduled tasks, skills, and the memory system — what exceeded expectations, what was genuinely painful, and the hard-won lessons that changed how I use AI automation.
Automate Presentation Slides in 30 Minutes with Claude Code Skills
Learn how to combine Claude Code Skills with Markdown intermediate format to generate presentation slides from planning to Google Slides export in just 30 minutes.