Turning Claude Into a Personal Assistant

A guide on setting up Claude to handle everyday personal assistant tasks.

Combining Claude Code and Codex

A walkthrough on using Claude Code and Codex together instead of picking just one.

Smarter Usage Limit Retry Handling

A new environment variable lets unattended retry mode end requests early when a usage limit reset is too far away instead of waiting indefinitely.

Claude Haiku 5.5 Launches

Anthropic released its cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model yet, built for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks.

--bare

Minimal mode: skip auto-discovery of hooks, skills, custom commands, subagents, installed plugins, MCP servers, auto memory, and CLAUDE.md so scripted calls start faster. Skills in a directory you pass with --add-dir still load. Claude has access to Bash, file read, and file edit tools. Sets CLAUDE_CODE_SIMPLE. See bare mode

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