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In two releases on 13 and 14 August 2026, Claude Code added GitLab merge request support to --worktree and agent view, secret redaction for GitLab tokens, and GitLab plugin marketplaces.

The quickstart gets one runner talking to Anthropic. This guide covers what production actually needs: egress control, git credentials, Kubernetes and Compose recipes, and drain timing.

A practical path through Claude Code for someone who has never opened a terminal AI agent before: install, first session, the commands worth memorising, and what to learn next.

Auto mode's classifier only trusts your working repo by default. Here's how to use autoMode.environment to add your org's repos, buckets and services, and stop routine work from getting blocked.

Claude Code sessions can now message each other with ListAgents and SendMessage. How discovery, delivery, and inbound controls work, and how it differs from subagents.

Claude Code's self-hosted environments run cloud sessions on your own infrastructure. Here's how to set up the runner, route a session to it, and what changes for skills.

From 14 August 2026, auto mode replaces manual permission prompts by default for new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max and Team. Here's what the classifier actually allows and blocks.

Opus 5 shipped 24 July 2026 with real gains in agentic coding and multi-agent coordination. Here's what that actually means for how you write and structure skills.

Ten curated agent skills for copywriting in 2026, landing pages, brand voice, ads, cold email and UX copy, with honest caveats and install steps.

Ten curated agent skills for content writing in 2026, social posts, technical docs, UX strings and academic writing, with honest caveats and install steps.

Eight agent skills that push AI-generated design away from generic templates, Impeccable, Taste, Anthropic's Frontend Design and more, with honest caveats on each.

Ten curated agent skills for UI/UX work in 2026, design systems, wireframing, theming and anti-AI-slop critique, with honest caveats and install steps.

Ten curated agent skills for documentation in 2026, codebase onboarding docs, ADRs, changelogs and coding standards, with honest caveats and install steps.

Both read the same SKILL.md standard, but activation, timing, and install paths differ. Here's how Claude Code and Codex CLI compare for running skills.

What to check before installing an agent skill: bundled scripts, permissions, prompt injection risk, and a concrete pre-install checklist.

A step-by-step guide to writing your own agent skill, from folder structure to the description field, with a full worked example.

A field-by-field breakdown of the SKILL.md format: frontmatter, body structure, and the scripts, references and assets folders a skill can bundle.

A complete walkthrough for installing Agent Skills in Claude Code: the skills CLI, manual installs, personal vs project scope, verification, and troubleshooting.

Agent Skills are portable folders of instructions that let AI agents like Claude Code and Cursor load expertise on demand. Here is how the format works, end to end.

How to install and download Claude skills on any agent, the skills CLI, manual folder copying, GitHub installs, and the exact path for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and 14 more platforms.