Posts by Alon Wolenitz
Quick Bash Wins: The ! Prefix
Stop wasting tokens asking Claude to run commands. The ! prefix executes bash instantly and injects output into context—no model processing, no delay, no wasted tokens.
Claude Code Templates: 400+ Ready-to-Use Configurations
Claude Code Templates (aitmpl.com) provides 400+ agents, commands, templates, and integrations to accelerate your Claude Code projects. Browse, select, and install in minutes.
tweakcc: Customize Everything in Claude Code
tweakcc is a CLI tool that brings customization to Claude Code—from system prompts and themes to toolsets and session naming. Here's what it does and how to get started.
Enhanced Plan Mode in Claude Code: What Changed and Why It Matters
Claude Code v2.0.51+ introduced multi-agent plan mode with Haiku exploration. Here's what changed, the problems the community discovered, and when it works well vs when it doesn't.
Fixing Enhanced Plan Mode: Community Workarounds That Actually Work
Struggling with plan mode's token consumption or quality issues? Here are four community-tested workarounds: custom commands, hooks, downgrades, and when to use each.
Faster @ File Suggestions: Claude Code v2.0.55's Fuzzy Matching Upgrade
Claude Code v2.0.55 improved fuzzy matching for @ file suggestions, making it faster and more forgiving when typing partial filenames with typos or missing characters.
Advanced Tool Use in Claude API: Three New Features That Change A lot
Anthropic introduces Tool Search, Programmatic Tool Calling, and Tool Use Examples - achieving 85% context reduction and 37% token efficiency gains.
New Tools in Claude Code 2.0.51
Claude Code 2.0.51 introduces EnterPlanMode, agent hooks, and Plan Mode v2 with Opus 4.5 integration for enhanced development workflows.
Claude Code Can Now Explain Itself: The Claude Code Guide Agent
Claude Code v2.0.49 quietly added a claude-code-guide subagent that helps Claude understand how to use its own features. Here's what it does and how it works.
Teleport Tasks to the Cloud with the & Prefix
Version 2.0.45 introduced a powerful feature: start any message with & in the Claude Code CLI to run it as a background task on Claude Code Web.
Fighting 'AI Slop': How Claude Code Skills Transform Frontend Design
Anthropic's new frontend design skill fights generic AI aesthetics by teaching Claude to avoid purple gradients, Inter fonts, and cookie-cutter layouts - here's how it works and why it matters
Claude Code is a Beast: Lessons from Rewriting 300k Lines of Code in 6 Months
A deep dive into the production-grade workflow that enabled one developer to solo rewrite 300k LOC with Claude Code - featuring skills auto-activation, dev docs systems, PM2 debugging, and the hooks that changed everything
Prompt-Based Stop Hooks: LLM-Driven Control Flow in Claude Code 2.0.41
Claude Code 2.0.41 introduces prompt-based stop hooks - an intelligent alternative to bash scripts that uses Claude Haiku to make context-aware decisions about when to stop execution
The End of 'Yes, Yes, Yes, Whatever': How Claude Code's Sandboxing Solves Approval Fatigue
A developer's honest take on why I was blindly clicking 'approve' 100 times a day until sandboxing saved my sanity (and my codebase)
Output Styles: Claude Code's Most Underrated Feature (And Why The Community Fought to Save It)
In version 2.0.30, Anthropic deprecated output styles. Four days later, they brought it back. Here's why this simple feature is the key to transforming Claude Code from a coding assistant into 'Claude Anything'