Skills for applying codified context to your own codebase

Two Claude Code skills for applying and maintaining the three-tier codified context architecture — what they do, how they work, and how to get started.

March 14, 2026 · 8 min · Russell

Waaseyaa: building a Drupal-inspired PHP CMS with AI

What waaseyaa is, why it exists, and how planning with GitHub issues before coding changes the dynamic of building complex software with AI.

March 14, 2026 · 6 min · Russell

Cold memory: specs, MCP tools, and on-demand context retrieval

How subsystem specs and MCP retrieval tools handle architectural knowledge too large for hot memory — and why stale specs are worse than no specs.

March 13, 2026 · 7 min · Russell

Domain specialist skills: teaching AI to think like your senior dev

What specialist skills are, why the 50% domain knowledge rule matters, and how waaseyaa’s spec-backed orchestration keeps AI consistent across a 29-package PHP monorepo.

March 12, 2026 · 6 min · Russell

Writing a CLAUDE.md that actually works

How to structure your CLAUDE.md as a routing layer so AI agents always know where to look.

March 11, 2026 · 6 min · Russell

Why AI agents lose their minds in complex codebases

Token limits aren’t the real problem with AI in large codebases — inconsistent context is. Here’s what breaks and why a three-tier architecture fixes it.

March 10, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Building a Codebase Cleanup Skill for Claude Code

How to write reusable Claude Code skills, featuring a codebase cleanup skill I built and ran on this very blog.

February 13, 2026 · 13 min · Russell

Drift in Cursor AI Rules

Learn how to prevent drift in Cursor AI rules to maintain accurate and relevant AI-assisted development workflows.

June 19, 2025 · 2 min · Russell