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Lesson #1: "Create Interactive AI Tools with Claude Code's AskUserQuestion"

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Create Interactive AI Tools with Claude Code's AskUserQuestion
AI interactions are often a one-way street: you give a prompt, and the AI responds. But what if the AI needs your input to clarify instructions, gather ...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Become a Claude Code Power-User | egghead.io
Join John Lindquist for a hands-on, technical workshop to transform into a Claude Code power user using TypeScript scripting, automation, and integrations.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Avoid the Dangers of Settings Pollution in Subagents, Hooks, and Scripts
When building complex automations with Claude, it's crucial to understand that any settings defined for your main agent—including powerful hooks—are inh...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Optimizing Claude Skills from Subagents to Scripts
Building Claude skills in plain English is intuitive and allows the AI agent to use sub-agents to figure out complex tasks. However, this approach can b...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Claude Skills Compared to MCP Tools
While Claude Skills offer incredible flexibility for agent-driven workflows, sometimes you need absolute, programmatic control over a task. This is wher...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Claude Skills Compared to Slash Commands
In Claude Code, both Skills and Slash Commands allow you to extend the AI's capabilities, but they serve distinct purposes. It can be confusing to know ...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Secure Your Claude Skills with Custom PreTool Hooks
The allowed-tools setting offers good control, but what if you need to enforce even stricter rules, like allowing only specific script directories or bl...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Build Better Tools in Claude Skills with Scripts
Errata Please use the full script name in 'allowed-tools' like below: allowed-tools: Bash(bun run scripts/compress.ts:*) Save the :* syntax for 'argu...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Stacking Claude Skills to Create Complex Workflows
While individual AI agent skills are powerful, their true potential is unlocked when they can be combined to perform more complex, multi-step tasks. One...
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October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Control Claude Skills Output with References and Examples
When building custom skills for Claude, you might find that the output is too generic or doesn't follow the exact file structure and content format you ...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Create Your First Claude Code Skill
AI assistants in Claude have limitations, like not knowing the current time, which can cause automation tasks to fail. This lesson teaches you how to ov...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM