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Jul 9, 2026

Claude Code Plugins: Packaging Skills, Hooks, and Integrations into Installable Extensions

Out of the box, Claude Code only sees your conversation, project files, and built-in tools. Plugins break that wall — installable packages that connect Claude Code to GitHub, Jira, AWS, databases, and internal APIs, and that bundle skills, hooks, slash commands, sub-agents, and MCP configs so they can be shared, versioned, and reused. This guide covers what plugins are, how they're structured, the plugin marketplace, how to install one with /plugins, and their advantages and limitations.

Claude Code 10 min read

Claude Skills: Turning a General-Purpose Model into a Domain Expert

Claude knows a lot in general, but not your team's template, standards, or conventions — and stuffing all of that into one giant prompt doesn't scale. Claude Skills fix this: reusable, file-based packages of expertise that load through progressive disclosure. This guide covers why skills exist, how the three levels work, personal vs. project skills, and the five steps to build a high-quality one.

AI Engineering 12 min read

LangChain Overview: Building Real Applications on Top of LLMs

LLMs are powerful but stateless — they can't remember context, call tools, or chain reasoning on their own. LangChain is the open-source framework that fixes that. This overview walks through its philosophy and core building blocks — prompt templates, chains, memory, and agents — plus the wider ecosystem (LangGraph, LangSmith, LangServe) and the real-world systems they power.

Claude Code 11 min read

Claude Hooks: Customizing Claude Code Through the Harness and Agent Loop

Claude Hooks are custom scripts the harness runs automatically at specific points in a session. This guide builds up from what a coding harness is, through the Agent Loop and session lifecycle, to how PreToolUse and PostToolUse hooks let you validate, block, format, and audit Claude Code's actions via settings.json.

Claude Code 9 min read

Understanding CLAUDE.md: Persistent Project Memory for Claude Code

LLMs are stateless — they forget your project conventions the moment a session ends. CLAUDE.md fixes that by giving Claude Code a persistent project handbook. Here's what it is, how /init generates it, what to put in it, and how it works alongside the .claude directory and auto memory.

SQLAlchemy Integration with Flask

A practical guide to combining Flask with SQLAlchemy — automatic session management, clean model definitions, full CRUD, REST routes, and the relationship patterns (one-to-many, many-to-many, one-to-one) that scale from prototype to production.

Dev Aggarwal

Jun 9, 2026

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