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Guides for people who build with Claude

Long-form, practical, and specific: Claude Code workflows, agent architecture, and prompting technique — the write-ups we wished existed while building ClaudeThings.

👽Marketing

How to Mention Your Product on Reddit Without Getting Banned (with a Claude Prompt That Writes the Post for You)

Why most product posts get removed or shadow-banned on Reddit — and a copy-paste Claude prompt that interviews you about your product, karma, and goal, then writes a post that reads like a real person, not an ad.

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🧩Claude Code

Claude Code Skills vs Subagents vs Slash Commands vs MCP: What Each Does and When to Use Each

The four ways to extend Claude Code, explained side by side: what skills, subagents, slash commands, and MCP servers each do, how they differ, and a decision table for picking the right one.

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🤖Subagents

The 12 Claude Code Subagents Worth Setting Up First (and What Each One Does)

A curated starter set of Claude Code subagents — code reviewer, debugger, security auditor, orchestrator, and more — with the reasoning behind each pick and what makes a subagent actually good.

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Skills

How to Write a Claude Code Skill (SKILL.md) That Actually Triggers

Why most Claude Code skills never fire — and how to fix it. How skill triggering works, the description formula, the five most common failure causes, and how to test a skill like code.

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📋Claude Code

CLAUDE.md Best Practices: The Exact Template to Give Every New Project

What to put in CLAUDE.md (and what to leave out): a copy-paste template, the under-200-lines rule, what earns a line, and the habits that keep the file working as your project grows.

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⌨️Slash commands

Claude Code Custom Slash Commands: 15 Copy-Paste Examples for Real Work

Fifteen ready-to-use custom slash commands for Claude Code — review, commit, debug, changelog, dependency audits, and more — plus the 60-second syntax primer and the patterns behind good commands.

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🔧Troubleshooting

Why Your Claude Code Subagents Aren't Working — Fixing Context Bleed and Bad Delegation

A troubleshooting guide for subagents that never get used or return garbage: delegation-tuned descriptions, context bleed in both directions, tool scoping, and a 5-minute diagnostic.

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🕸️Orchestration

How to Run a Team of Claude Code Agents in Parallel Without Burning Through Tokens

Sequential, parallel, and fan-out orchestration for Claude Code agents — when each pattern earns its cost, seven rules for keeping token spend sane, and a worked three-agent example.

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📣Marketing

Claude Code for Marketers: Ship SEO Content and Campaigns Without Writing Code

Claude Code isn't just for developers. How marketers use it for SEO content pipelines, campaign assets, and reporting — working on real files, no code required, with concrete prompts.

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🚢Shipping

Boilerplates Are Dead: How to Ship a SaaS Faster with Claude Code Agents Instead of Templates

Why $300 SaaS boilerplates stopped making sense: locked stacks, dead code, and rot — and the agent-first build sequence that replaces them with code generated for your stack.

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🎯Skills

The Best Claude Code Skills to Install in 2026 (and How to Add Them in One Command)

An opinionated shortlist of Claude Code skills worth installing in 2026 — code review, security, documents, SEO, and more — plus how to judge any skill in thirty seconds and install safely.

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🚀Claude Code

Getting Started with Claude Code: From Install to First Shipped Feature

A practical, no-fluff guide to Claude Code: installation, your first session, CLAUDE.md, permissions, skills and slash commands — and the workflow habits that separate power users from tourists.

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🤖Agents

How to Build AI Agents with Claude: A Practical Guide

What an AI agent actually is, when you need one (and when you don't), the agent loop, tool use, MCP, and how to build your first working agent with the Claude API and Agent SDK.

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🧠Prompting

10 Prompting Techniques for Claude (From Anthropic's Own Playbook)

The ten techniques that consistently improve Claude's output: context front-loading, examples over adjectives, XML structure, chain-of-thought, role prompting, output prefills, and more — each with a before/after.

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📈Finance

7 Claude Prompts for Smarter Investing Research

Seven copy-paste Claude prompts for investing research: reading annual reports, stress-testing a thesis, decoding earnings calls, and building a decision journal. Educational, not financial advice.

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Prefer copy-paste over theory?

The prompt library has 50 field-tested Claude prompts across coding, writing, data, business, and marketing — each with the reasoning behind it.

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