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Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

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Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

#31

Post by JoRyGu »

stavros wrote: post #27
Planktonne wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're explicitly not talking about local models here; we're talking about Claude.

Because you're better able to take over the codebase a local model wrote than one Claude wrote? The original question was about taking over an LLM-written codebase, it doesn't sound to me like the argument was about a codebase that Claude, specifically, wrote.

Brother, look at the first comment in the chain you replied to. It very specifically was about Claude.

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

#32

Post by notachatbot123 »

stavros wrote: post #27
Planktonne wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're explicitly not talking about local models here; we're talking about Claude.

Because you're better able to take over the codebase a local model wrote than one Claude wrote? The original question was about taking over an LLM-written codebase, it doesn't sound to me like the argument was about a codebase that Claude, specifically, wrote.

The original question is:

> What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours?

So: - A codebase made with Claude - Using this [Claude] setup - Claude is down

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

#33

Post by stavros »

JoRyGu wrote: post #31
stavros wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you're better able to take over the codebase a local model wrote than one Claude wrote? The original question was about taking over an LLM-written codebase, it doesn't sound to me like the argument was about a codebase that Claude, specifically, wrote.

Brother, look at the first comment in the chain you replied to. It very specifically was about Claude.

Well, in that case, it's also very specifically about this guy's codebase, so none of us can really say anything on this.

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

#37

Post by redhale »

netdevphoenix wrote: post #10

What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the codebase?

Just use a fallback, like Codex CLI. Takes a little effort upfront to ensure your configuration is wired correctly for both harnesses, but it is pretty easy to get them 90% identical (there will almost always be some experimental / edge case features that differ across harnesses, but in my experience those are negligible in practice).

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

#38

Post by thedeadp12t »

In the recent weeks, I think the harness/model came to a point that you can just ask it to do stuff and it just does. You can use plan mode, you can also use superpowers, or whatever other skill, but given that you'll review something anyway, why not work directly with code instead of silly amounts of md files?

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

#39

Post by oulipo2 »

sshine wrote: post #13

The number one power move I have is Nix integration. The availability of tooling, secrets, environment and the ability for the agent to modify its own environment is... well, I don't know how people live without it. I guess you guys still install things using commands and hope everything you need is present on the next machine? Developer machine, CI environment, deployment environment: They're all derived from a sing…

For those who don't want the complexity of Nix, Mise is a good compromise

Re: Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

#40

Post by rethab »

big-chungus4 wrote: post #4

Out of curiosity, how much does it cost to daily drive Claude like this?

I only use opus 4.7 and am on the 100$/mo plan. I usually make sure the context does not grow beyond 30-40% of the 1m tokens. On heavy coding days where I do something pretty similar to this, I would occasionally run into the five hour limit, but that happens like once per week and then it wouldn't take too long to reset. Note that I use caveman, but I'm not sure to what extent that really helps.
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