A working list of the Claude Code plugins I keep installed across machines — what each one does, where it pays for itself, and which ones I uninstalled within a week. Not a feature tour; a working setup.
Hooks turn Claude Code from a chatbot into a system you control. Five hooks I wrote and kept — what each does, when it fires, the failure mode it prevents, and the code.
Skip the protocol theory. Build a working Model Context Protocol server in TypeScript, wire it into Claude Code, and make a real agent call a real tool in under an hour. Code, traps, and how to know it works.
Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity — the tools are real, the productivity claims are mostly real, and the new skill is shaping work for an agent rather than doing it. A senior engineer's field notes on what changed and what didn't.