Claude Clue #15: Skills Are Just Files Your Model Can Find

A skill is essentially a file that your model can access on demand to tailor its behavior for a specific task.

Claude Clue #14: Skills Focus, Hooks Enforce

Skills are reusable prompts, hooks are code you can run to stop or alter the model's behavior.

Claude Clue #13: Know Your Limits (And Have a Backup Plan)

Here's a fun way to start your work week: burning through 80% of your weekly Claude usage by Tuesday morning!

Claude Clue #12: Let Claude Spawn More Claudes

Claude Code can spin up multiple Claudes to work in parallel, and it is genuinely one of those features that feels a bit like magic!

Claude Clue #11: What Hides Behind the '/'

The `/` menu in Claude Code has quietly become a treasure chest.

Claude Clue #10: Give Your Codebase a Health Checkup

Your codebase accumulates tech debt. It doesn't matter if humans wrote it, AI wrote it, or some messy combination of both.

Claude Clue #9: Let Your Models Fight Each Other

One of the most useful things I've found is putting models in adversarial roles against each other!

Claude Clue #8: Train Your Model on Today, Not Yesterday

Claude's training data has a cutoff date, which means the libraries it "remembers" are frozen in time—security flaws and all.

Claude Clue #7: Tell Claude What Day It Is

It's ridiculously frustrating when AI models get the date wrong, and they do it all the time. Everyone's seen it.