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The Complete Guide to Building Skills for Claude

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Fundamentals
• Chapter 2: Planning and Design
• Chapter 3: Testing and Iteration
• Chapter 4: Distribution and Sharing
• Chapter 5: Patterns and Troubleshooting

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Pi Coding Agent Setup Guide

1. Install the Agent

npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent

2. Launching Pi

# Interactive REPL

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Recipe: Persistent Network Configuration in WSL 2 using Hyper-V Virtual Switch

Problem Description

Connecting to services running in WSL 2 from external sources can be challenging due to the instances being on a different network. This guide offers a solution to replace the internal virtual switch of WSL 2 with an external version in Windows 20H2 (WSL 2.0) and configure it for better networking control.

Solution Overview

This recipe uses a Hyper-V virtual switch to bridge the WSL 2 network, providing improved control and visibility of Windows' network adapters within Ubuntu. The configuration supports both dynamic and static IP addressing, eliminating the need for port forwarding and simplifying network setup.

Steps

1. Enable Hyper-V and Management PowerShell Features:

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Running Third Party Kernel Extensions on Virtualization Framework macOS Guest VMs

As of macOS 12 (Monterey), Apple's Virtualization framework has nice support for macOS guest virtual machines, but with severe limitations: For example you can't install a macOS guest on Intel Macs, install guests with newer versions of macOS than the host, copy and paste between the host and the guest, or install third party kernel extensions in the guest. As usual for Apple, the functionality they do support is nicely implemented, but they've left out so much that the result is only marginally useful -- at least compared to

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SSH + Yubikeys via FIDO2 on MacOS

Resources

• Official instructions
• Firmware capabilities matrix
• FIDO2 features by firmware

Prerequisites

Yubikey firmware should be >5.2.3

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Git Worktrees: From Zero to Hero

Table of Contents

1. What Are Git Worktrees? (First Principles)
2. The Problem Worktrees Solve
3. How Worktrees Work
4. Worktrees + Submodules: Monolith Setup
5. Practical Tutorial: Creating Your First Worktree
6. Advanced Workflows
7. Best Practices

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OpenClaw: Extracted Prompts (Generalized)

22 copy/paste-ready prompts for building your own AI agent system. Each prompt builds a functional system or implements a proven best practice you can hand to an AI coding assistant.

Replace placeholders like <your-workspace>, <your-messaging-platform>, and <your-model> with your own values.

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1. Personal CRM

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OpenClaw: System Prompt File Templates

Generalized versions of all root .md files used by OpenClaw. These files are loaded into the agent's system prompt on every request (except MEMORY.md which is conditional).

Copy these as starting points and customize for your own setup. Replace <placeholders> with your values.

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AGENTS.md

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A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins

This guide is for homelab admins who understand IPv4s well but find setting up IPv6 hard or annoying because things work differently. In some ways, managing an IPv6 network can be simpler than IPv4, one just needs to learn some new concepts and discard some old ones.

Let’s begin.

First of all, there are some concepts that one must unlearn from ipv4:

Concept 1

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Terminals should generate the 256-color palette from the user's base16 theme.

If you've spent much time in the terminal, you've probably set a custom base16 theme. They work well. You define a handful of colors in one place and all your programs use them.

The drawback is that 16 colors is limiting. Complex and color-heavy programs struggle with such a small palette.