Claude

The list that pops up when you hit / in Claude Code is intimidating at first. A hundred-odd commands, half of them named in a way that gives nothing away, and your own custom commands mixed in with the built-ins. You don’t need all of them. Ten commands cover almost everything you do day to day, and the rest is reference material you look up when the moment arrives. This page gives you both: the ten first, then the full list grouped by what it’s for 🧰 ...

If you have been using Claude Code for a while you have definitely run into three terms: skill, subagent and hook. All three live under “customizing Claude Code” and at first glance they look like they do the same job. They don’t. Each solves a different problem, and picking the wrong one means either needless complexity or a setup that never fires 🛠️ The Short Answer The decision rule Skill: when you keep writing the same instructions over and over Subagent: when a job produces so much output it floods your main conversation Hook: when you need a rule to hold without exception Slash Commands Are Skills Now The biggest change first, because most older guides miss it: custom slash commands have been merged into skills. ...

If you have hit extended thinking and adaptive thinking back to back in Claude’s docs and wondered whether they are the same thing, you are not alone. Short answer: they are not, and you are almost certainly using adaptive thinking already without realizing it 🧠 What Is “Thinking” in Claude? Before answering, Claude can use a scratchpad to reason through the problem on its own. It works step by step, rules out possibilities, does the math, then delivers the final answer. ...

Anthropic today announced Claude Opus 5, the new flagship of the Claude family. The model brings a major jump over Opus 4.8 in agentic coding, knowledge work, computer use, and scientific research. Best of all, these gains ship at the same price. Let’s look at what the new model offers and where it stands against its rivals 🚀 What Is Claude Opus 5? Opus 5 is Anthropic’s most capable general-access model to date. Replacing Opus 4.8 , it shines especially in complex, long-horizon agentic tasks. ...

The news everyone was waiting for is here! Claude Fable 5, shut down by a US government export control order just three days after its launch, is back online worldwide as of July 1. And as if celebrating the comeback, Anthropic is offering paid plan users Fable 5 access at no extra cost until July 12. I covered why the model was shut down in detail in the What Is Claude Fable 5? post. Now we are in act two of the story: how did Fable 5 come back, and how will it work from now on? ...