Claude Code · Codex

Backend and CLI skills

Build agent-friendly CLIs, choose a project stack, organize a monorepo, and write modern Go with reusable skills for Claude Code and Codex.

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CLI design for AI agents

agent-friendly-cli-design

Design a CLI that AI agents can actually drive: resource and verb layering, non-interactive defaults, token-lean output, and errors that teach the agent how to retry.

updated 2026-07-18backendself

Coding agent session formats

coding-agent-session-formats

Parse local session files from Codex, Claude Code, Kimi, OpenCode, and Pi — storage paths, message schemas, a unified export shape, and cache-aware cost math.

updated 2026-07-18backendself

Monorepo architecture

monorepo-architecture-principles

Organize a monorepo that stays organized: a one-way dependency graph over apps and packages, ten recurring principles, and the anti-patterns worth naming.

updated 2026-07-18backendself

Project stack scaffolding

tech-stack-scaffolding

Bootstrap a new project on house conventions across four stacks — web, browser extension, Python CLI, Go CLI — with drop-in configs and script naming.

updated 2026-07-18backendself

Modern Go development

use-modern-go

Write Go that matches the version the project actually targets, reaching for slices, maps, and cmp instead of the legacy patterns they replaced.

updated 2026-03-12