Skills are the right first abstraction in Claude Code. But once your tasks become large, noisy, or isolated, a plain skill stops being enough. Here is when subagents become the better tool — and how to combine both.
CLAUDE.md and SKILL.md solve different problems. One is always-on context, the other is on-demand capability. Here's the practical framework for keeping them clean.
Solo productivity with Claude Code doesn't automatically scale to a team. The bottleneck shifts from writing code to coordination, consistency, and shared understanding. Here's what actually works in practice.
Skills are the most underused feature in Claude Code. This guide covers everything: where skill files live, the full frontmatter spec, how invocation works, writing good descriptions, passing arguments, and real examples you can copy today.