#productivity

Custom Slash Commands in Claude Code (They're Skills Now)

Stop retyping the same elaborate prompt. Capture it once as a slash command and invoke it forever — with arguments, live context injection, and control over who can trigger it.

@a · Jul 8

The Context Window Is Your Real Constraint

When an AI session starts forgetting and contradicting itself, it's usually not intelligence that ran out — it's context. How to manage the AI's working memory like the scarce resource it is.

@a · Jul 8

Using Claude Code for Things That Aren't Code

The name is a trap. Strip away the framing and it's a general reasoning agent that can read, reason, and act — code is just the most common thing people point it at.

@a · Jul 8

Cutting Claude Code's Permission Prompts Without Going Reckless

Approving the same twenty commands is misery; turning permissions off is dangerous. A well-scoped allowlist is the middle path — here's how to build one.

@a · Jul 8

Writing a CLAUDE.md That Actually Changes Claude Code's Behavior

A CLAUDE.md that gets ignored is worse than none. How the file loads, the hierarchy that decides which rules win, and why specificity is everything.

@a · Jul 8