Section
Tools
Reviews and field notes on the models, frameworks and products people actually build with.
Agent skills marketplace options for teams: author, version, review and roll back
A SKILL.md file changes what every coding agent on a team does the next time it loads. How to write descriptions that trigger, keep skills small, version and review them, pick a distribution model from git to plugin marketplaces to a private registry, and roll a bad release back.
TorchNeuron’s public beta: what PyTorch teams should verify
TorchNeuron makes Trainium a native PyTorch device. Operator fallbacks, static shapes and numerical checks still decide migration readiness.
Claude Code enterprise rollout: managed settings, per-developer keys, budgets and logs
Installing Claude Code takes a minute. Rolling it out to two hundred engineers without a surprise bill, a shared API key or an unknown MCP server on every laptop takes a plan: a provider choice, managed settings, one credential per developer, budgets, CI keys and a way to tell whether it is paying off.
Codex skills: where OpenAI's agent finds SKILL.md files, and which ones to install
A Codex skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that the CLI and IDE extension find in .agents/skills and load when a task matches its description. Scan paths, the context budget, writing one that triggers, installing shared skills with npx skills, and six worth adding for LLM app teams.
AI agent security: a practical guide to securing LLM apps and agents
The model is not a security boundary. Eight concrete failures in LLM apps and agents, from provider keys in browser bundles to injected tool calls and runaway spend, each mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10, with the code-level fix and an open-source agent skill that audits a codebase for them.
Cursor skills: how Agent Skills work in Cursor, and when to use them instead of rules
Cursor loads Agent Skills from .agents/skills and .cursor/skills and lets the agent decide when each one applies. How that decision works, how skills compare with .cursor/rules and AGENTS.md, how to install shared skills with npx skills, and three skills that fix MCP sprawl and blind spots.
LLM cost optimization: a measured playbook for cutting API spend
Every LLM bill is requests times tokens times price. A playbook for shrinking each factor without a quality regression: attribution, right-sized models, complexity routing, prompt trimming, prompt and response caching, Batch APIs, loop caps and budgets, plus the open-source llm-cost-reduction agent skill.
MCP best practices: tool budgets, least privilege and approval gates
Connecting one MCP server takes a line of config. Running twenty safely across a team takes tool budgets, per-identity allow-lists, approval gates, sane transports, health checks and logs. The practices, checked against the 2026-07-28 MCP specification, and an open-source agent skill that audits a setup against them.
Claude Code pricing: plans, API rates and what drives the bill
Claude Code is included in every paid Claude plan and can also run on pay-as-you-go API keys, cloud accounts or a gateway. Which credential a developer uses decides which bill a request lands on, and context, caching and model choice decide how large that bill gets.
npx skills and skills.sh: a complete guide to the skills CLI
The skills CLI installs SKILL.md folders from GitHub into 79 coding agents, and skills.sh is the directory built on its telemetry. Every command in version 1.7.4, project and global scope, the symlink layout, the lock file and its hashes, and the warning printed on every install, checked against the source.
Claude Code router setups: running Claude Code on other models
Claude Code talks to one API format, and anything that speaks that format can answer it. Routers, gateways and local servers use that to swap in other models. The configuration takes minutes; knowing what breaks on the way takes longer.
What an AI gateway does, and what it costs to run one
Most teams that use more than one model provider end up putting a proxy in front of all of them. This is what that proxy does, where the main products differ, and a detailed look at one of them, Bifrost, based on its documentation and a local install.