What is a Claude Code mod, and where does it sit next to plugins, skills, hooks and MCP?
A Claude Code mod is a plugin whose TypeScript hooks module runs inside Claude Code. What shipped in 2.1.277, what is only announced, and when to use one.
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A Claude Code mod is a plugin whose TypeScript hooks module runs inside Claude Code. What shipped in 2.1.277, what is only announced, and when to use one.
The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge. Tags: coding-agents, ai, llms
Since 2.1.277, Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when no CLAUDE.md or CLAUDE.local.md is on the path. Before 2.1.281, telemetry off skipped it silently.
A harness is everything in a coding agent except the model. On strong models, two September 2026 studies found it moves the bill more than the pass rate.
Compaction is the step where a coding agent summarises its own history to keep working: what it keeps, what it drops, and what OpenAI found in its summaries.
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and interesting things with and on top of coding agents.
Release: llm-keys-ui 0.1 This plugin solves a very specific problem. I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machines while controlling them from my phone. Sometimes I use those machines to hack on LLM projects, and occasionally that means I need to configure an API key.
Six releases in eight weeks, from 0.8.5 to 0.10.0. The biggest things Hindsight learned to do this summer, grouped by what they let you build.
Jev cannot write a single word, which is the reason to care about it, so the question worth asking is never whether it should be your agent but which decisions inside your agent it should own.
Cursor and Claude Code tie at five of eight real Stackness profiles in September 2026. Co-use beats switching, and no one has recorded a switch yet.
You already know how to get a new engineer productive: docs, pairing, and time. Agents need the same thing and get none of it, because every session is their first day.
Coding Agents 0.5.0 adds pi, Qwen Code, DeepAgents Dcode, and opencode 2, taking the package to 16 agents that all share one memory per repository. Here's how coding agents work, and what changes when they remember.
Keep useful context when a coding agent gets stuck. Learn when to resume, fork a session, or hand a summary to another agent.
Our prediction for when the software factory actually arrives, the four tiers on the way there, and the first production run, starting in September.
Compare Construct with coding agents. See when a generalist AI employee for email, research, calendar, CRM, and code is the better fit.
How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes
In March 2026, OpenAI open-sourced a plugin that runs Codex inside Claude Code. But it picked up steam over this last weekend as Sol 5.6 shipped. Here’s what’s happened recently and it says a lot about where the AI wars are going. What happened codex-plugin-cc is an official OpenAI plugin that adds…
Short note linking a new article on setting up local coding agents with open-weight models.
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