Agent Skills & AI Coding Blog
Articles about agent skills, AI coding tools, and developer productivity.
Anthropic Skills: The Official Repo and Docs, Explained
A practical tour of Anthropic skills: the anthropics/skills GitHub repo, the official document skills, skill-creator, licensing, and how community skills fit in.
Best Claude Skills in 2026: 25 Tested and Ranked
The best Claude skills in 2026, ranked: 25 tested skills for code review, testing, docs, and automation, plus how to install any of them in one command.
The 15 Best MCP Servers for Coding in 2026
We ranked the 15 best MCP servers for coding in 2026 — GitHub, Playwright, Context7, and more — with install snippets, token costs, and security notes.
Claude Code MCP: The Complete Setup Guide (2026)
Set up Claude Code MCP servers the right way: claude mcp add, scopes, .mcp.json, remote server auth, debugging, and keeping context cost under control.
Claude Code Skills: The Complete Practical Guide (2026)
Learn what Claude Code skills are, how SKILL.md and progressive disclosure work, where skills install, and how to get them triggering reliably.
Claude Skills vs MCP: Which One Do You Actually Need?
Claude skills vs MCP explained: what each does best, real token costs, and a five-question framework to decide which one your workflow needs.
How to Create a Claude Skill: SKILL.md Step by Step
Learn how to create Claude skills step by step: scaffold SKILL.md, write a description that triggers reliably, add scripts, test locally, and publish.
What Is an MCP Server? A Plain-English Developer Guide
What is an MCP server? A plain-English guide to the Model Context Protocol: how servers expose tools and resources, MCP vs API, and how to connect your first one.
AGENTS.md: The Complete Guide for Coding Agents
Learn what AGENTS.md is, which coding agents support it, what to include, nested monorepo precedence rules, and how to migrate from CLAUDE.md and .cursorrules.
Claude Code Plugins: Install, Build, and Ship Your Own
Learn how Claude Code plugins work: install them with /plugin, write a plugin.json manifest, bundle skills, commands, hooks, and MCP servers, and ship to your team.
Claude Code Subagents: When and How to Use Them
Learn when Claude Code subagents help and when they waste tokens: built-in agents, custom subagent files, and orchestration patterns for parallel work.
Claude Code vs Gemini CLI: Which Wins in 2026?
Claude Code vs Gemini CLI in 2026: agentic coding quality, skills and MCP extensibility, CLAUDE.md vs GEMINI.md, pricing, and the Antigravity shift.