Notes from the workbench.
Thinking out loud about PHP, AI tooling, ABA software, indie hacking, and whatever else I'm shipping this month.
A Floor, Not a Ceiling: Why My Agent Skills Use Everything Claude Code Offers
Most of my agent skills started as Matt Pocock's. His are written to run the same in every harness. Mine still run anywhere, but where Claude Code has a better tool for the job, they use it. Here's what that changes when you're the one sitting at the keyboard.
When 'Always' Means Always: The Implied Clause in Your Agent Rules
I told my agent to ALWAYS add --tia to Pest. It did — by running the whole suite after every single step. A human hears an implied 'when you run Pest.' The agent doesn't. Here's the lesson.
Multiple Claude Code Accounts, One Shared Setup
Claude Code can isolate each account in its own config directory, but that usually leaves every profile with stale settings and missing skills. Symlinks give each account the same personal setup without sharing its identity.
Turning a Creator's X Tips Into Agent Rules Claude Actually Reads
I follow Povilas Korop for Laravel tips, but they scroll by on X and vanish. So I scraped ~696 of them, OCR'd the code-in-image samples with Claude, and distilled the durable ones into versioned agent-rules repos my coding agents load automatically. Here's the whole pipeline.
My Global CLAUDE.md: The Rules I've Built Up Over Time
Every time an AI agent burned me, I wrote a rule. Here's my entire ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md — the personal rules that travel with me across every project — and the scar behind each one.
A Linear workspace per project in Claude Code (no more reconnecting)
If you work across two projects with two different Linear workspaces, Claude Code's Linear MCP makes you disconnect and reconnect every time you switch. Here's how to bind each repo to its own Linear account so it just works.
Getting More Out of Claude Code: Tips for New Users
Treat Claude Code like a very fast junior developer who needs clear direction. A handful of habits — plan mode, scoped @ references, skills — make the difference between magic and mess.