Claude Code Hooks vs Skills vs Subagents: Three Ways to Extend the Agent, and When Each Backfires
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The first time I tried to make Claude Code "always run the linter," I wrote a Skill. It worked most of the time. The rest of the time, Claude decided the task didn't need linting and skipped it. I spent an embarrassing afternoon tightening the Skill's description before I understood the actual prob…
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- 2026-09-13 13:00 · DEV Community — AI
Claude Code Hooks vs Skills vs Subagents: Three Ways to Extend the Agent, and When Each Backfires