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Whiteboard sketch: a toolbox with six distinct Claude Code harness tools, and a hand picking the right one for the job.

claude code April 23, 2026 6 min read

When to Use What: Choosing the Right Claude Code Harness for the Task

Hooks, skills, CLAUDE.md, MCPs, sub-agents, plan mode. A practical decision framework for picking the piece of the harness that actually earns its keep on the task in front of you.

Claude Code gives you six different ways to shape a session. Most teams reach for the wrong one and wonder why the loop feels slow. Here's how we decide, task by task, which piece of the harness is worth the setup cost.

Eli Wood

CEO, Black Flag Design

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Whiteboard sketch: a central skill card with arrows fanning out to three connected repos, showing a skill being shared across a studio.

claude code April 23, 2026 6 min read

How to Share Claude Code Skills Across Repos, Teams, and Clients

Skills are the new unit of institutional knowledge. Here's how we package, share, and govern them across a studio that runs on Claude Code.

Claude Code skills are reusable slash-command workflows. Once they exist, the question is who gets to use them: you, your team, your org, or a specific client. Here's the sharing model we run at Black Flag and the disciplines that keep it from rotting.

Eli Wood

CEO, Black Flag Design

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