AI All The ThingsReal fixes from real agent builds.https://aiallthethings.com/One Claude Code Binary, Five Different Agents — Shell Aliases as Workflow Modeshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/claude-code/shell-aliases-as-agent-workflow-modes/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/claude-code/shell-aliases-as-agent-workflow-modes/Shell aliases that load different system prompts turn one Claude Code install into specialized agents for planning, review, coding, and deployment.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWrite the Plan with One Agent, Break It with Another — The Review Loop That Catches Real Bugshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/claude-code/write-the-plan-then-break-it-review-loop/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/claude-code/write-the-plan-then-break-it-review-loop/One Claude session can't review its own work. A second session with a different system prompt finds critical gaps in under 60 seconds.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTClaude Code's Deny Rules Don't Protect You — Here's What Actually Doeshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/claude-code/deny-rules-dont-protect-you-sandbox-does/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/claude-code/deny-rules-dont-protect-you-sandbox-does/Deny rules only block Claude's built-in tools. Bash subprocesses bypass them entirely. Sandbox mode is the real security boundary.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTDon't Have Claude Do Your Taxeshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/general/dont-have-claude-do-your-taxes/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/general/dont-have-claude-do-your-taxes/Taxes look like a lookup table. They're actually a two-layer problem — and knowing where to draw the line is the whole skill of building with AI.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTDiscord Image Attachments → Claude Vision in Five Lineshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/discord-image-attachments-to-claude-vision/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/discord-image-attachments-to-claude-vision/Route Discord image attachments to Claude's vision API. Detect by content type, build image content blocks, send images before text.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTChannel-Aware Command Enrichment for Discord Agentshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/channel-aware-command-enrichment/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/channel-aware-command-enrichment/Commands in a specific channel get auto-injected with project context. Same command, different channel, different behavior — no user effort required.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTOfficial AI Agent Skills Are Here — Install Stripe and Cloudflare Best Practices in One Filehttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/claude-code/official-skills-stripe-cloudflare-best-practices-one-file/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/claude-code/official-skills-stripe-cloudflare-best-practices-one-file/Companies now ship SKILL.md files that encode their engineering team's best practices. Here's which ones exist and how to install the three that matter most.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuilding Per-Skill LLM Cost Tracking Into Your Agenthttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/per-skill-llm-cost-tracking/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/per-skill-llm-cost-tracking/A JSONL-per-month cost logger that tags every API call by skill and user. Know exactly what each capability costs — not just total spend.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTMCP Tool Schemas Accept Plain Objects — But Only Zod Actually Workshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/claude-code/mcp-tool-schemas-zod-not-plain-objects/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/claude-code/mcp-tool-schemas-zod-not-plain-objects/The MCP SDK silently accepts plain JSON Schema objects for tool parameters. Inputs arrive as undefined. Only Zod schemas validate at runtime.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrompt Caching for Multi-Skill Agents — Split Stable vs Dynamichttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/prompt-caching-for-multi-skill-agents/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/prompt-caching-for-multi-skill-agents/Your agent's identity doesn't change per request. Mark it for caching. Keep skill instructions in the dynamic block. Save 90% on repeated input tokens.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTYour MCP Server Isn't Broken — Your Config Is in the Wrong Filehttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/claude-code/mcp-env-vars-silent-failure-settings-json-vs-mcp-json/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/claude-code/mcp-env-vars-silent-failure-settings-json-vs-mcp-json/Claude Code silently ignores env vars in settings.json for MCP servers. Move them to .mcp.json at your project root or nothing works.Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTGraceful Module Disable Pattern for Always-On Agentshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/graceful-module-disable-pattern-for-always-on-agents/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/graceful-module-disable-pattern-for-always-on-agents/How to pause agent capabilities without deleting code or polluting health checks with stale data.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTValidate AI-Parsed Output Before Your Code Touches Ithttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/validate-ai-parsed-output-before-your-code-touches-it/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/validate-ai-parsed-output-before-your-code-touches-it/When Claude vision extracts structured data from images, missing fields silently corrupt downstream math. A validation gate catches it.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuilding a Morning Brief: Multi-Source Agent Briefingshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/building-a-morning-brief-multi-source-agent-briefings/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/building-a-morning-brief-multi-source-agent-briefings/How to build a daily agent briefing that pulls from Google Calendar and Vikunja, formats it for Discord, and posts at 6:30am automatically.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDiscord Markdown Gotchas for Bot Messageshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/discord-markdown-gotchas-for-bot-messages/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/discord-markdown-gotchas-for-bot-messages/Discord headings need blank lines before them, markdown links generate embed previews, and messages over 2000 chars get rejected silently.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTNatural Language Date Parsing: The Same-Day Weekday Bughttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/natural-language-date-parsing-same-day-weekday-bug/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/natural-language-date-parsing-same-day-weekday-bug/When your reminder parser sees '~wed 10pm' on a Wednesday, it schedules next week instead of today. A one-character fix.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSelf-Hosted Open Source as Agent Infrastructurehttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/self-hosted-open-source-as-agent-infrastructure/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/self-hosted-open-source-as-agent-infrastructure/Run Vikunja and Google Calendar locally and your agent gets task management, scheduling, and reminders for $0/month — no SaaS, no vendor lock-in.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTYour Agent Is Hallucinating Answers Instead of Running Toolshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/agent-hallucinating-answers-instead-of-running-tools/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/agent-hallucinating-answers-instead-of-running-tools/When command routing fails silently, the LLM fills the gap with confident fabrications. The user never knows the tool didn't run.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuild Your Own Agent Harness: A Layer-by-Layer Primerhttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/build-your-own-agent-harness-a-layer-by-layer-primer/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/build-your-own-agent-harness-a-layer-by-layer-primer/How to build an always-on AI agent runtime from scratch — transport, personality, LLM routing, skills, memory, and uptime — by validating one layer at a time.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTClaude for Thinking, Ollama for Doinghttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/claude-for-thinking-ollama-for-doing/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/claude-for-thinking-ollama-for-doing/Route complex reasoning to Claude API and cheap tasks to local Ollama. Your agent doesn't need its best brain for every message.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTConversation Memory Is Context Not Historyhttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/conversation-memory-is-context-not-history/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/conversation-memory-is-context-not-history/Your agent doesn't need to remember every message. A sliding window of recent context beats an ever-growing archive.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTMake Your Agent Transport a Swappable Layerhttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/make-your-agent-transport-a-swappable-layer/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/make-your-agent-transport-a-swappable-layer/Define a transport interface once. Discord today, iMessage tomorrow. Your orchestrator should never know which wire it's talking through.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTKeep Your Agent Runtime Under 400 Lineshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/keep-your-agent-runtime-under-400-lines/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/keep-your-agent-runtime-under-400-lines/If you can't diagnose a problem in your agent runtime in 30 minutes, your codebase is too big. Simplicity is a reliability feature.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSeparate the Harness from the Agenthttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/separate-the-harness-from-the-agent/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/separate-the-harness-from-the-agent/Your agent runtime should know nothing about who it's running. Split machine from mind and every agent gets portable.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTYour VPS Is Costing You More Than the Invoicehttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/your-vps-is-costing-you-more-than-the-invoice/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/obi-jam/your-vps-is-costing-you-more-than-the-invoice/The real cost of a rented server isn't the monthly bill. It's the maintenance time that could go toward building the product.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTEdit Tool Fails the Second Time the Same Field Gets Updated — Use sed Insteadhttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/skills/edit-tool-fails-second-time-same-field-use-sed-instead/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/skills/edit-tool-fails-second-time-same-field-use-sed-instead/The Edit tool fails when old_string no longer exists. For dates, timestamps, and counters that update repeatedly, sed is the right tool.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSystem Cron Is the Wrong Place for OpenClaw Agent Jobshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/system-cron-is-the-wrong-place-for-openclaw-agent-jobs/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/system-cron-is-the-wrong-place-for-openclaw-agent-jobs/System cron won't find nvm binaries, won't log failures, and won't deliver to Discord. OpenClaw cron does all three. Use the right tool for the job.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTRoute Expensive Model Calls to Subagents with sessions_spawnhttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/route-expensive-model-calls-to-subagents-with-sessions-spawn/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/route-expensive-model-calls-to-subagents-with-sessions-spawn/Use sessions_spawn's model parameter to run heavy tasks on Opus while keeping your orchestrator on a fast, cheap model.Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTConnecting Two OpenClaw Agents Over Tailscale: How ACP Pairing Workshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/connecting-two-openclaw-agents-over-tailscale-acp-pairing/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/connecting-two-openclaw-agents-over-tailscale-acp-pairing/How to wire agent-to-agent communication in OpenClaw using ACP, and why the pairing-required loop has nothing to do with your token.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDon't Tell Your Agent to Send — Let the Runtime Do Ithttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/dont-tell-your-agent-to-send/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/dont-tell-your-agent-to-send/When an OpenClaw scheduled job uses announce mode, the agent just needs to reply. Telling it to 'send' makes it reach for a tool — and fail.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTTurn Your Agent's Standing Procedures Into Skillshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/skills/turn-your-agents-standing-procedures-into-skills/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/skills/turn-your-agents-standing-procedures-into-skills/Extracting workflows buried in config docs into structured skills makes them triggerable, testable, and independently improvable.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhen to Farm and When to Just Do the Workhttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/skills/when-to-farm-and-when-to-just-do-the-work/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/skills/when-to-farm-and-when-to-just-do-the-work/Most orchestrator agents default to spawning subagents for everything. The overhead only pays off on tasks that won't fit in one session.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat a Skill Audit Actually Findshttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/skills/what-a-skill-audit-actually-finds/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/skills/what-a-skill-audit-actually-finds/Auditing 20 agent skills surfaced undertriggering descriptions, missing persistence, stale docs, and duplicated boilerplate. Here's the pattern.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenClaw Nodes Are Not Agent Messaginghttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/agent-messaging-vs-nodes-dont-confuse-them/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/agent-messaging-vs-nodes-dont-confuse-them/Nodes are device peripherals — camera, screen, remote shell. If you want agents on separate machines to talk, you need to build that yourself.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAgents Batch Everything Unless You Tell Them Not Tohttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/agents-batch-everything-unless-you-tell-them-not-to/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/agents-batch-everything-unless-you-tell-them-not-to/Agents batch async signals into scheduled reports by default. Time-sensitive events need explicit classification or they'll wait for the next briefing.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDitch Discord as Your Agent Message Bushttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/ditch-discord-as-your-agent-message-bus/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/ditch-discord-as-your-agent-message-bus/Replace Discord with direct Tailscale HTTP for agent-to-agent communication and inject messages into a remote OpenClaw agent.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTYour Agent Inbox Needs a Callbackhttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/your-agent-inbox-needs-a-callback/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/your-agent-inbox-needs-a-callback/HTTP endpoints that trigger LLM turns can't block waiting for a response. Accept immediately, process async, give the agent a route to reply.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAlways Specify the Timezone When Asking an OpenClaw Agent for the Datehttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/always-specify-the-timezone-when-asking-an-openclaw-agent-for-the-date/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/always-specify-the-timezone-when-asking-an-openclaw-agent-for-the-date/Agents in isolated sessions default to UTC or guess the timezone. One line in your skill gives you the correct local date every time.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow to Stop OpenClaw Cron Agents from Sending Messages When There's Nothing to Dohttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/how-to-stop-openclaw-cron-agents-from-sending-messages-when-there-is-nothing-to-do/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/how-to-stop-openclaw-cron-agents-from-sending-messages-when-there-is-nothing-to-do/Telling a cron agent to 'stop silently' doesn't work — the model narrates it anyway. Here's the phrasing that actually suppresses output.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenClaw Still Running Old Version After npm Upgrade? Reinstall the Daemonhttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/openclaw-still-running-old-version-after-npm-upgrade-reinstall-the-daemon/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/openclaw-still-running-old-version-after-npm-upgrade-reinstall-the-daemon/Upgrading OpenClaw via npm doesn't update the systemd service file. Run openclaw daemon install --force to sync the service with the new binary.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy Your OpenClaw Agent Only Remembered One Day of Workhttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/why-your-openclaw-agent-only-remembered-one-day-of-work/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/why-your-openclaw-agent-only-remembered-one-day-of-work/Scheduled agent jobs run in isolated sessions with no memory. Here's how to fix weekly recap logic that silently drops data.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy Your OpenClaw Skill Works in Text But Not as a Slash Commandhttps://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/why-your-openclaw-skill-works-in-text-but-not-as-a-slash-command/https://aiallthethings.com/articles/openclaw/why-your-openclaw-skill-works-in-text-but-not-as-a-slash-command/OpenClaw skill names with hyphens break Discord slash command routing. Use underscores in both the folder name and name field.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT