Claude Code ships blind — no context gauge, no quota counter. I built a 7-segment statusline and baked in a 50% context handoff rule, backed by Lost-in-the-Middle research. Every segment, every color rule, and the full production script explained.
Intelligence isn't about what you know — it's about how you interact with the world. That one insight explains why AI is growing up in exactly the same order as a human child, and doing it a million times faster.
70 prompt tips for Claude Code are floating around. 7 actually moved the needle for me. Real before/after terminal sessions, a copy-paste cheat sheet, and the 3 patterns I dropped.
Workflow automation with AI
Claude Code ships blind — no context gauge, no quota counter. I built a 7-segment statusline and baked in a 50% context handoff rule, backed by Lost-in-the-Middle research. Every segment, every color rule, and the full production script explained.
I built 8 Claude Code Skills in three months. 5 still live on my machine. 3 are deleted. Full SKILL.md snippets for the survivors, honest post-mortems on the rest, and the 5-gate decision tree I use before building the next one.
I tested 12 MCP servers for Claude Code over three months. 5 earned a permanent spot, 7 got removed. The short list for non-programmers, with real usage frequency and a copy-paste .mcp.json.
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