Part 1
Boluwaji Joshua AdedigbaAI Engineering
Context is the budget
Claude Code spends a fixed slice of the window before you type a word. Most sessions that go badly are budget failures, not model failures.
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Claude Code in practice
Six parts on what actually changes how a session goes: context, commands, MCP, hooks, sub-agents, and skills.
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Part 01 – 06
Part 2
Boluwaji Joshua AdedigbaAI Engineering
Custom commands for work that repeats
A slash command is a prompt you got tired of retyping. What changes when it becomes a file is that it can be reviewed, shared, and wrong in only one place.
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Part 3
Boluwaji Joshua AdedigbaAI Engineering
MCP servers are capabilities, not knowledge
A server gives Claude something new to do, not something new to know. Which is why adding one never fixes a model that keeps forgetting your conventions.
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Part 4
Boluwaji Joshua AdedigbaAI Engineering
Hooks run whether the model agrees or not
A CLAUDE.md rule is a request. A hook is shell the harness runs regardless, which makes it the only place to put a rule you cannot afford to have ignored.
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Part 5
Boluwaji Joshua AdedigbaAI Engineering
Sub-agents are a context decision
Delegating does not make the model smarter. It buys a clean context window and charges you visibility, and every good use of a sub-agent follows from that.
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Part 6
Boluwaji Joshua AdedigbaAI Engineering
A skill is a loading strategy with some knowledge attached
A skill that is always in context is a memory file with extra steps. The engineering is in the description field and in everything you keep out of SKILL.md.
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