Agent Engineering

The practical craft of building agents that survive contact with real work: tool design, context, evaluation, failure modes and the boundaries worth enforcing.

Inventive workshop wall with modular tools, connected components, and crafted workflow artifacts being assembled by hand
Skills, Hooks, and Plugins in Claude Code
How to turn repeated prompts into reusable skills, add hook-based automation, and think clearly about plugins in Claude Code.
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Desert industrial frontier with towering dispatch structures, heavy rigs, rail lines, and convoy traffic under a glowing sunset
What Gas Town Is Really Building
A close reading of Steve Yegge's Gas Town as a multi-agent operating model, with an emphasis on persistence, handoffs, merge discipline, and where the idea is genuinely useful.
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Expedition outpost sending specialist drones into separate landscapes while operators coordinate from a central station
When to Use Subagents, and When Not To
A practical guide to Claude Code subagents, isolated context windows, and the situations where delegation helps or hurts.
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