Skill or plugin? Choosing how to package what Claude should know
Skills hold know-how; plugins distribute it. A developer's guide to choosing between a personal skill, a repo commit and a plugin in Claude Code.
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- 2engineering teams built from hiring to handover
Latest writing
All writing →Build a Claude Code plugin, step by step
A hands-on tutorial: build commit-helper, a Claude Code plugin with a slash command, a review agent and a hook that blocks secrets, then install it.
The Right Fit
Episode 5 of Spending Less on AI. Which model, at what effort, for which kind of software request — endpoints, bugs, refactoring, tests, code review, architecture — and …
What I do
Twenty-three years building and running systems where failure is expensive — across stacks, teams and business domains that had little in common except the need to work.
AI-assisted software development
Bringing AI into how a team builds software — agent-assisted engineering with the specifications, review gates and delivery cadence that make it dependable.
Cloud infrastructure
AWS and GCP environments designed for the load they will actually carry, automated end to end, with the trade-offs written down rather than assumed.
IT product development
From the first specification to a shipped product: architecture, the team, and the operating cadence that makes delivery predictable instead of heroic.
There is more to life than work.