Build with Claude
For engineers, integrators, and anyone shipping Claude into production.
Practitioner content for engineers shipping Claude into production. Claude Code workflows, Claude API patterns, MCP integrations, agentic-development verification loops, and the patterns that separate prototypes from systems you'd let run unsupervised. If you're integrating, this is the track that's writing for you.
Posts in the Build with Claude track
Claude Code Can Auto-Fix Your Pull Requests Unattended. Who Owns the Review Bar Now?
Claude Code auto-fix watches your PR, fixes CI failures, and responds to review comments overnight. Here's what that means for your merge gate.
Deep diveHow to Audit an MCP Server Before Its Upstream API Breaks It
MCP servers are a maintained production surface, not one-time plumbing. A guide to security audits, token governance, and surviving upstream API deprecation.
Deep diveWhat Does 'Critical' Actually Mean in an AI Code Review?
Review automation treats Claude's severity labels as absolutes. They're local ranks inside one context. A deep-dive on AI code review severity calibration and what to do about it.
The AI Diligence Operating System: Schema First, Subagents Second
Before you hire a Claude architect for diligence, settle the AI diligence operating system question: memo schema first, subagents second. Here's why.
Deep diveClaude Code iPhone: The Practitioner Playbook for Shipping Without a Laptop
Claude Code on iPhone runs production-grade personal projects, if you stop fighting the workflow. A practitioner playbook for shipping without a laptop.
Deep diveWhen to Reach for Claude Code's /batch (and When claude-squad, Agent Teams, or Superpowers Wins)
A reference for senior engineers deciding whether to adopt Claude Code's /batch command on real work. Mechanics, suitability criteria, anti-patterns, comparison against claude-squad, Agent Teams, the Anthropic Agent SDK, and Superpowers v5, plus the failure modes the launch announcement skipped.
Deep dive90 Minutes With 400 Engineers, PMs, and Ops on Claude Code: Here's What They Wanted to Know
Six questions kept recycling when I trained 400+ people on Claude Code. The taxonomy reveals more about rollout failure than the answers do.
Deep diveHow to Create a Claude or Claude Code Skill: A Hands-On Guide for First-Timers and Optimizers
Skills feel like a mini-program in a new tech stack. They aren't. Here is how to create your first Claude or Claude Code skill, three creation paths from easiest to most rigorous, and how to make the same SKILL.md run in Codex, Cursor, and beyond.
Deep diveThe free Claude Code skill that audits your CLAUDE.md, hooks, and subagents for Opus 4.7 breaking changes
Your 4.6 CLAUDE.md looks fine. Opus 4.7's literal reading means it isn't. Free compatibility scanner audits hooks, settings.json, and subagents in minutes.
Deep diveWhere Does That Rule Go? A Decision Tree for CLAUDE.md, Settings, Skills, and Hooks in Claude Code
Stop overloading CLAUDE.md. Learn when Claude Code directives belong in settings, rules, skills, or hooks. Includes a decision tree and worked examples.
Deep diveClaude vs Claude Code: How to Pick the Right One (and When to Use Both)
Claude vs Claude Code: understand the core differences, when each tool is the right choice, and how the most effective users run both together.
Deep diveThe Four Sub-Agent Orchestration Patterns That Cover 90% of Production Claude Workloads
Anthropic ships no canonical multi-agent reference architecture. Here are four Claude sub-agent orchestration patterns with production decision criteria, cost math, and failure modes.
Claude Opus 4.7 Is a Split, Not an Upgrade
Opus 4.7 vs Sonnet 4.6: Anthropic just split its lineup into agent operators and fast-turn assistants. Route them interchangeably and you'll pay for the mismatch.
Deep diveBeyond the Wrapper: Five Claude API Patterns That Separate Prototypes from Production
Most Claude API integrations are wrappers around a string function. Five architectural patterns separate prototypes from production: here's how to ship them.
Your Claude API Integration Is Probably a Wrapper Around a String Function
Most teams treat the Claude API as stateless text-in/text-out. The integration mistakes that follow cost money, add latency, and leave Claude's strongest features unused.
Deep diveThe Agentic Development Starter Guide: Plan, Audit, Implement, Verify
A practitioner's guide to agentic coding workflows. Learn the plan-audit-implement-verify cycle that separates disciplined AI development from vibe coding.
Your PRs Are Missing Context. Claude Code Fixes That.
A third of pull requests ship with no description at all. Claude Code generates rich, structured PR descriptions from your codebase and commit history, giving reviewers everything they need without extra effort from you.
Connecting Claude to Jira, GitHub, and Confluence: An MCP Server Setup Guide
Most guides cover one tool at a time. This walkthrough connects all three, with a real cross-tool workflow and the security details other tutorials skip.
Claude Code Custom Skills: Encoding Your Team's Standards Into AI Workflows
Your team's coding standards live in a wiki nobody reads. Claude Code custom skills turn those standards into instructions Claude follows on every task.
Quick readWhy Claude Code Changes How SaaS Teams Ship
Most teams use Claude as a chatbot. The productivity lift comes from Claude Code workflows that plug into your CI/CD pipeline, Jira board, and code review process.