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Hooks

Hooks Hooks are another feedback mechanism we can use in Claude code.They run arbitrary commands after certain lifecycle events.There’s one hook I lean on heavily “Stop”.It’s called when Claude has finished generating code. Which maps really nicely to my normal workflow where I would run commands like compile, lint, prettier, etc. to check the code is in a good state before continuing.These commands are generally fast to run and when they fail the error is fed back to the LLM and continue to...

11 days ago • 1 min read

Sub Agents I’ve been playing around with Claude Code sub-agents a lot recently and only just cracked how to get them working reliably. At first I thought they’d just work automatically. After all, the docs do say just prompt Claude with ALWAYS USE and it’ll magically select the right agent. But that never worked for me.Instead I found tagging the agent with @sub-agent-name forced Claude to select it. This feels a bit broken but I guess its messy tool selection and thats a tricky problem. I...

11 days ago • 1 min read

Background Agents My favourite thing about Github Agents is that they run in their own isolated containers and can scale infinitely. Until recently I’ve felt a bit stuck with Claude Code. On one hand its the best code generator. On the other, it doesn’t scale well beyond one instance and I have to wait for it to complete, which sometimes can be quite a while. Now I’ve figured out a way to work on multiple tickets at a time by running multiple instances of claude code. This is something they...

11 days ago • 1 min read