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An honest 2026 field log on Claude Code skills: I installed 30 community skills, deleted almost all of them, and kept the three I wrote for my own repo. What a skill is actually good for, and the rule I use to pick skill vs CLAUDE.md vs MCP.
I ran spec-driven development for a month on a live B2B product. An honest 2026 field log: where the spec earned its overhead, where it was pure ceremony, and the six-heading spec that survived.
Claude Code can now drive a real browser: read the console, click through your app, fill forms, pull data. Two weeks of using it on live work, what it replaced, where it still hands the keyboard back, and the context-cost footgun nobody warns you about.
AGENTS.md vs CLAUDE.md is not a format war. A 2026 field log on running both files in one repo, why Claude Code ignores AGENTS.md, and the one-line import that fixed it.
The standalone /output-style command is gone as of v2.1.91, so most guides are stale. Here is the current way to switch styles, which of the four built-ins earn their place, and the keep-coding-instructions flag that quietly breaks custom styles.
A config field log: the exact Claude Code statusline I run in 2026, the four fields that earn their place, the ones I deleted, and why the bar sometimes shows up empty.
I ran Claude Code hooks daily for a month. Four earned their place, two got deleted, and one quietly made my workflow worse. The honest field log.
An AGENTS.md file helps AI coding agents, but only when it is short. A two-week field log on trimming mine from 412 lines to 38, and why less context beat more.
Running three to five AI coding agents at once with git worktrees for two weeks: the exact setup, honest merge and cost numbers, the failure mode nobody warns you about, and when parallel agents are the wrong call.
Reviewing AI-generated code is the new bottleneck. Here is the 15-minute triage system I run on every agent pull request, and when I just rewrite instead.
One weekend, one invoice tracker, three AI app builders (Lovable, Bolt.new, Totalum). Honest field log: where each one shone, where each one stalled, and which one survived to Monday morning.
A short, honest June 2026 retro on what got cut from a working Claude Code config: the custom statusline, the over-engineered MCP wrapper, the autosave permission. Plus the one thing I almost killed and why I kept it.
