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Tech· 2026-05-11· 5min

The Five Layers of an Agent Setup — and When Each One Is Premature

Memory, skills, hooks, subagents, plugins. Five layers in a strict order, each earning a specific payoff, each a mistake if you reach for it before a symptom asks for it. The honest part of the ladder is the rungs you don't climb yet.

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Tech· 2026-04-23· 5min

Claude Code's Forked Subagents Aren't an Upgrade. They're the Opposite Tool.

Anthropic shipped /fork in Claude Code v2.1.117 — a subagent that inherits the entire parent conversation instead of a compressed handoff prompt. The obvious read is "subagents but better." It's wrong. Forks and regular subagents sit at opposite ends of a single axis: context inheritance. The blank slate was never a bug. Here's the decision rule.

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