AI & Tooling Updates¶
Curated digests of Claude Code features, AI platform changes, MCP innovations, and workflow tooling updates relevant to the VisiTrans team. Each entry includes a summary, key details, and editorial commentary on why the update matters for our workflows.
Browse entries below in reverse-chronological order. For programmatic access, use the .index.json file in this directory.
2026-07-30¶
Anthropic's Loop Engineering Guide for Claude Code¶
Category: claude-code | Tags: claude-code, loop-engineering, autonomous-agents, goal-loop, workflows
Reframes Claude Code as designing loops that run to a stop condition; four loop types (turn/goal/time/proactive) and encoding self-verification in SKILL.md.
The i-have-adhd Claude Code Skill: Answer-First Output Rules¶
Category: claude-code | Tags: claude-code, skills, output-formatting, productivity
A community skill of 10 output-formatting rules (answer-first, cap lists at 5, no preamble/closers), installable as a plugin and toggleable per session or via CLAUDE.md.
The 4-Line CLAUDE.md: Behavioral Principles Over Rule-Lists¶
Category: claude-code | Tags: claude-code, claude-md, context-engineering, agent-behavior
Argues large CLAUDE.md rule-lists cause context dilution; distills four behavioural principles plus a thin context layer, with a litmus test for every line.
2026-03-23¶
Anthropic Skill-Creator: Testing Framework for Agent Skills¶
Category: claude-code | Tags: claude-code, agent-skills, skill-testing, evals
Skill-creator plugin brings evals, benchmarks, and A/B comparisons to agent skill authoring.
Karpathy's Autoresearch Generalized as Agent Skill¶
Category: ai-tooling | Tags: agent-skills, autoresearch, optimization-loops, karpathy
Autoresearch pattern generalized into AgentSkills-spec skill — one file, one metric, one loop applied to any measurable domain.
Kepano's Obsidian Agent Skills — AgentSkills Spec Reference¶
Category: ai-tooling | Tags: obsidian, agent-skills, agentskills-spec, skill-packaging
Steph Ango published official Obsidian agent skills following AgentSkills spec — 5 skills with multi-tool installation support.