
Patterns, Distribution, and Troubleshooting Your Claude Skills
This is Part 3 of a three-part series on building skills for Claude. Part 1 covered what skills are and why they matter. Part 2 walked through building and testing your first skill. Now we get into the stuff that separates a toy skill from a production one: proven patterns, distribution mechanics, and how to fix things when they break.
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Building Your First Skill: From YAML to Working Workflow
Welcome back to the series. In Part 1, we covered what Claude Code skills are, why they matter, and how they transform Claude from a general-purpose assistant into a specialist that knows your workflows. Now it’s time to build one.
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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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How We Built Race Radio Control in a Week With Claude Code and Airia
Last week, Chris Porter and I entered the Airia F1 Atlassian Williams Racing virtual hackathon as team JoPoCo (Jones + Porter + Co). We had seven days to build an AI-powered fan experience for remote motorsport viewers. What we shipped was Race Radio Control: a second-screen companion that lets fans tune into four AI-powered radio feeds — Carlos Sainz, Alex Albon, team principal James Vowles, and stats host Max Folds — all grounded in live telemetry data.
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Building Your Own AI Agent Stack: Lessons from 10 Open Source Projects
I spent the last week falling down a rabbit hole. Not the productive kind where you emerge with a working solution and a sense of accomplishment. The kind where you save ten GitHub repos in a single week and then sit back and realise they’re all telling you the same thing.
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The Real Skill Isn't Coding Anymore. It's Describing What You Want.
You’ve Got the Tools. So Why Are You Still Slow? If you’re building on AWS right now, you have access to more managed services, more abstraction layers, and more AI-assisted tooling than at any point in computing history. CDK, SAM, Amplify, Bedrock, Kiro, Claude Code. The list keeps growing.
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