// edition · 2026-05-25

May 25, 2026

15 stories on AI dev tools, agents, and the coding stack — curated from the day's RSS haul by Agentic Dev's pipeline.

Top Signal · CLI Agents

50 Claude Code Skills That Paid Developers Don't Talk About

A developer published a collection of Claude Code CLI prompt templates covering tasks such as generating conventional commit messages, pre-push code review, codebase mapping, refactoring planning, and root cause analysis. A full pack of 50 prompts spanning git, security, DevOps, and architecture ...

Dev.to - Claude

Tool Updates

Your Claude Code hooks probably fail open — here's why that's dangerous

Claude Code hooks that swallow exceptions and exit with code 0 default to allowing commands when they fail, a pattern the author calls "failing open." A npm package called `claude-hook-guard` was published to enforce fail-closed behavior, adding audit logging, a 5-second timeout, and a bypass tok...

CLI Agents Dev.to - Claude

Who’s monitoring the agents?

AI agent frameworks such as CrewAI, AutoGen, and LangGraph are increasingly deployed in production, but teams operating multi-agent systems lack adequate monitoring tools to trace how outputs are produced. Common operational problems include runaway model call chains, silent failures, subtly inco...

Agent Engineering The New Stack

What ClickHouse learned from a year of coding with AI agents

ClickHouse engineers reported that AI coding agents became viable for daily work on their large C++ codebase after Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 in November 2025, having previously found earlier models ineffective for C++ beyond boilerplate tasks. The team categorizes AI-assisted coding into...

Agent Engineering The New Stack

How to use Claude in vscode?

A tutorial describes how to configure the Claude Code VSCode extension to use Zhipu AI's Anthropic-compatible API endpoint by creating a config.json file in the ~/.claude directory and setting ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN environment variables in VSCode settings.

CLI Agents Dev.to - Claude

Why Your AI Coder Keeps Inventing Helpers You Already Have

AI coding assistants generate syntactically correct code that violates project-specific conventions because those rules exist in review comments and team memory rather than readable files. A flat CLAUDE.md instruction file has limitations: it's written from memory, loaded for every request regard...

Workflows & Tips Dev.to - Claude

The Hidden Features of Claude

Claude includes features such as a large context window for processing lengthy documents, Artifacts for generating interactive outputs like web apps and dashboards, Projects for maintaining persistent context across sessions, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for connecting to external tools and A...

Workflows & Tips Dev.to - Claude

Ecosystem

datasette-agent 0.1a4

Datasette-agent 0.1a4 was released, adding a "Start a new agent chat" interface to the Jump to menu (triggered by pressing "/"), using the makeJumpSections() JavaScript plugin hook introduced in Datasette 1.0a30.

Open Source Tools Simon Willison

Quoting Armin Ronacher

Armin Ronacher, maintainer of the Pi project, wrote that AI-generated bug reports are a growing problem in open-source, producing inaccurate root cause guesses and fabricated reproduction steps. He asked users to file issues based only on direct observations: command run, expected result, actual ...

Opinion & Analysis Simon Willison

datasette 1.0a30

Datasette 1.0a30 alpha was released, adding a "Jump to..." navigation menu triggered by pressing `/` that filters databases, tables, and debug options. A new `jump_items_sql()` plugin hook allows plugins to add custom items to the menu.

Open Source Tools Simon Willison