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What Are Claude Skills and Why Should You Care?
This is Part 1 of a 3-part series on building skills for Claude. If you’ve ever wished Claude could just remember how you like things done, this series is for you.
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Agent Plugins Are the Future. But You Might Be Giving Away Your Best Engineering.
A few weeks ago AWS dropped Agent Plugins, a packaging model that bundles skills, MCP servers, hooks, and reference docs into installable units for AI coding agents. Two commands and your Claude Code or Cursor agent knows how to deploy to AWS, estimate costs, and generate IaC.
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AWS Just Published an MCP Strategy Guide. Here Is What Actually Matters.
AWS quietly dropped a prescriptive guidance document on MCP strategies this month. If you have spent any time with MCP servers, you know the protocol itself is straightforward. The hard part is everything around it: how many tools to expose, where to host the servers, how to stop an agent from deleting your production database with inherited admin credentials.
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From Zero to Knowledge Pipeline: OpenViking on AWS Lightsail
Most people building with AI agents hit the same wall eventually. Your agent forgets things between sessions. RAG retrieval surfaces the wrong chunks. You cannot tell why the agent picked what it picked. And every time you start a new session, you are re-explaining context that should already exist.
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