A small script that catches invisible characters in plugin names before you install
Control characters and zero-width characters hiding in plugin or skill names are invisible in a terminal listing. I built six deliberately confusing names, compared what ls actually shows, and wrote a short check you can run before installing anything — plus an honest note on what that check misses.
It Worked on My Machine, but Nobody Could Trigger It — Four Assumptions I Stripped Out of a Cowork Plugin
I bundled four working automation skills into a plugin and shared it. Only one of them ever fired. Here is how I measured skill trigger rate, and the four assumptions — vocabulary, paths, connections, and naming — I had to strip out before it was portable.
Claude Code × JetBrains — Setup and Workflow for IntelliJ, WebStorm, and PyCharm
Learn how to use Claude Code with JetBrains IDEs including IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PyCharm, and GoLand. Covers plugin installation, native Diff view, selection context sharing, keyboard shortcuts, and practical workflow examples.