This Week's Video

This week I'm covering git worktrees. It's a feature that's been in git forever but I never touched until working with Claude Code. Worktrees let you have multiple copies of the same repo on your machine without re-cloning. I use this daily: running a primary feature in one worktree while an agent handles tech debt in another, or working on something new while waiting on code review.

In the video I walk through setting up worktrees and demo a script that bootstraps them with your gitignored files. Watch it here →

Resources mentioned:

• Worktree bootstrap script
• Git worktree cheatsheet

Claude Code Workflow Updates

I've updated my Claude Code Workflows repo to work with Vercel's skills.sh ecosystem. This means if you're using something other than Claude Code, like Cursor, OpenCode, or anything else that supports skills, you can now install them with a single command:

npx skills add dgalarza/claude-code-workflows

The workflows themselves haven't changed, but they're now accessible to a much wider audience.

Claude Code Hooks

Claude Code has had hooks for a while now but I haven't leveraged them much until recently. This past week I finally dug in and found a few useful patterns. My latest short shows how to use a UserPromptSubmitHook to make Claude actually use your skills. No external LLM, just simple regex pattern matching. Watch it here. I've also updated the tdd-workflow in my workflows repo to include this hook. More hooks content coming soon. If you have interesting uses of hooks, drop them in the community.

Agent Skills by Teams

More libraries are shipping agent skills for their tools. This week I tried Remotion's skill and used it to build all the visual scenes in the worktrees video. Expo released one too. If you maintain a library, this is quickly becoming the norm.

That's it for this week. Reply and let me know what you're building with Claude Code. I read every response.

Damian