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advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.md at main humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents
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advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/wsff.md at main humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents
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Context Forking to Save Time, Tokens and Trouble
Context forking is a powerful coding agent primitive that allows you to build up high-quality context and then reuse it multiple times.
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Long-Context Isn't the Answer
We tried Opus with 1M context for coding agents, and now we're switching back. It turns out it's not about the size of the context window - it's about the quality.
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Skill Issue: Harness Engineering for Coding Agents
Harness engineering is the art and science of leveraging your coding agent's configuration points to improve output quality and increase task success rates.
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Writing a good CLAUDE.md
CLAUDE.md is a high-leverage configuration point for Claude Code. Learning how to write a good CLAUDE.md (or AGENTS.md) is a key skill for agent-enabled software engineering.
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Human Layer Clone now available as a Claude plugin
Human Layer https://www.humanlayer.dev/ is a YC startup working on creating a better workflow for agentic tooling, and I have developed a Claude Code plugin with GitHub workflow scripts that let you build a similar workflow to Human Layer.
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