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ECC: The Free Setup Pack That Makes Claude Code Plan, Test and Remember
ECC is a free, open-source pack of skills, helper agents, automatic checks and memory for Claude Code. What each part does, two ways to install (pick one), where to start, and how to remove it.
4 min read →Agent Reach: Let Your AI Read YouTube, Reddit and More (Free)
Agent Reach is a free, open-source add-on that lets AI agents like Claude Code read YouTube transcripts, Reddit, GitHub and more. What it reads, the one-line install, logins, and how to remove it.
4 min read →The 2-Day Claude Setup Roadmap: 5 Steps to Use Claude Better Than Most People
Set Claude up once and it already knows you, your projects and your apps. Five steps over two days: an About Me interview, a Second Brain, projects, connectors and skills, with a copy-paste prompt for each.
6 min read →Your AI Said “Done!” But Is It? 5 Prompts That Make It Show Proof
When an AI says Done! but it isn’t, don’t ask if it’s sure. Ask it to show you. A 30-second check, five copy-paste prompts, and the warning signs of a fake Done!
3 min read →Automaton: The AI Agent That Pays Its Own Bills (and Stops When It’s Broke)
Automaton is a free, open-source AI agent with its own crypto wallet that pays for everything it does and stops when the money runs out. How it works, the install, what setup asks, and the risks.
6 min read →7 Claudes Try to Reject Your Resume: Free /hiring-panel Skill Setup (No API Key)
The free /hiring-panel skill runs your resume past an automated screen, a hiring manager, and five readers who judge it alone, then rebuilds it with every mistake fixed. Install steps, a real before/after run, and how to read the verdict.
7 min read →What Happens When Claude Code Hits Its Usage Limit: Auto-Continue, Explained
Hit a Claude Code usage limit mid-task? Here’s exactly what appears on screen, what happens at the reset, how session and weekly limits differ, and how to cancel or turn off auto-continue — sourced straight from Anthropic’s own docs.
5 min read →claude-mem for Claude Code: Free Session Memory, 97% Smaller Context (Tested)
claude-mem is a free, Apache-2.0 Claude Code plugin (100K+ GitHub stars) that watches your sessions, compresses them, and hands the context back next time you open Claude Code. Two commands to install; our own numbers: 434,573 tokens of work read back in 12,878 (97% smaller).
6 min read →anatomy for Claude Code, Tested: The Free Skill That Turns an Explanation Into a Machine (18 Minutes, Here’s the Catch)
We asked plain Claude and the free anatomy skill the same question. One gave text and a quiz; the other built a clickable token bucket machine in 18 minutes and 88,601 output tokens. Install, limits, and how to remove it.
8 min read →Make Claude Code Talk Like a Caveman: Free Caveman Skill Setup (and How to Remove It)
Caveman makes your coding agent answer short and keeps code exact. What the 63 vs 20 token example really means, what JetBrains measured, three ways to install, and how to uninstall.
8 min read →context-mode for Claude Code, Measured: 315 KB of Tool Output Became 5.4 KB (Here’s the Catch)
We ran context-mode’s own benchmark and our real logs: 98% less tool output in context on its test files, about 95% counting the scripts, 13% on small logs. How it works, install, and how to remove it.
9 min read →Let Claude Watch YouTube and Learn Any Job: 3 Settings (Watch Skill + Free Gemini Key)
Make Claude Code watch YouTube videos, take notes and turn them into a skill: the watch skill, a free Gemini key, and skill-creator. Exact commands and prompts.
7 min read →Edit Shorts With Claude Code: Word Stickers, Text Behind You (Free Kit)
One talking clip, one request: Claude Code writes the captions, stickers and scenes as code and renders a 30 s Short. Free kit, the exact prompt, and how to fix things by just saying what’s wrong.
7 min read →Make Claude Build Websites That Don’t Look AI-Made: 3 Free Skills + Playwright (Tested)
Three free design skills and Playwright MCP stop Claude’s purple-gradient template. Install commands we ran, the brief that changes the result, and three real sites built with it.
6 min read →12 Claudes Put Your Idea on Trial: Free /court Skill Setup (No API Key)
The free /court skill makes Claude argue against your idea: a prosecutor, a defense, 12 jurors who vote blind and a judge. Install, first trial, how to read the verdict, and seven cases to paste.
7 min read →Google’s Free AI Tools in 2026: 11 to Try, Status-Checked (and 4 to Skip)
Stitch, Pomelli, Antigravity, Gemini Notebook and more: every free Google AI tool opened on October 11, with status, first prompts, an AI tool-picker prompt, and the ones that closed.
7 min read →5 Claude Code Settings to Change First: /init, Plan Mode, /effort, Hooks, Auto Mode
Five built-in Claude Code settings that take a minute each: project memory with /init, plan mode, /effort max, a formatting hook set up by one prompt, and auto mode.
6 min read →160+ Free Claude Code Subagents in One Install: VoltAgent Setup Guide (Tested)
VoltAgent’s free collection gives Claude Code 163 ready-made subagents in 10 departments. Install the first three in four commands, then run agents by name or in parallel.
6 min read →6 One-Word AI Photo Codes That Actually Work (Tested in Gemini)
/comic, /minifigure, /plushie, /chibi, /sticker, /anime: one photo, one word, real Gemini results. Plus the 5 codes that did nothing and the 3-word fixes.
4 min read →8 Top Halloween Costumes of 2026 as AI Photo Prompts (Tested on Real Faces)
K-Pop Demon Hunters, Pennywise, Wednesday, Ghostface and more: copy-paste AI prompts that put you in 2026’s top Halloween costumes, with real before/after results.
6 min read →Shopify Dev MCP for Claude Code: Catch Fake GraphQL Fields Before They Ship (No API Key)
Shopify’s official Dev MCP server gives Claude Code shopify.dev search, current API schemas, and a validator that rejects made-up GraphQL fields. Local, free, no API key. Tested setup in 2 minutes.
7 min read →Give Claude Code Read-Only Database Access: Supabase, Neon, and MongoDB MCP (Measured)
One read-only line each for Supabase, Neon, and MongoDB MCP. We measured what the read-only switch removes: every write tool, but not the one that queries.
9 min read →Claude Code Token Usage: We Measured 4 Ways to Cut It (Tools Helped Least)
Ten days of real Claude Code usage: 96% of tokens were cache reads. Shorter sessions and removing unused MCP servers cut far more than RTK (14%) or a compressing proxy (7%).
6 min read →5 MCP Servers to Add to Claude Code First: No Account, No API Key (Tested)
Context7, Exa, Firecrawl, Playwright, and Chrome DevTools: five MCP servers that need no account or API key. One paste installs all five; we measured the tools and context each one costs.
8 min read →Cloudflare MCP for Claude Code: The Whole Cloudflare API in 2 Tools (1-Minute Setup)
Cloudflare’s official API MCP server gives Claude Code 2,500+ endpoints through two tools in about 1,100 tokens. One command plus OAuth, with the permissions you pick.
7 min read →Connect Jira + Confluence to Claude Code in 1 Minute: No API Token (Atlassian MCP, 2026)
Atlassian’s official Rovo MCP server lets Claude Code search, read, create, and update Jira issues and Confluence pages with your own permissions. One command plus OAuth on the v2 endpoint.
6 min read →Stripe MCP for Claude Code: A 1-Minute Setup That Starts in the Sandbox
Stripe’s official hosted MCP server lets Claude Code read products, prices, customers, and payments, and search Stripe’s docs. One command plus OAuth, connected to a sandbox first. Key change due October 31, 2026.
6 min read →How to Connect Linear MCP to Claude Code (Read-Only First, 1 Minute)
Linear’s official hosted MCP server lets Claude Code find, read, create, and update issues, projects, and comments. One command plus an OAuth sign-in, starting on the read-only endpoint.
6 min read →Supabase MCP for Claude Code: A Read-Only, One-Project Setup in 2 Minutes
Supabase’s official hosted MCP server lets Claude Code list tables, run SQL, read logs, and generate types from your real database. One command plus an OAuth sign-in, set up read-only and scoped to one project.
7 min read →Figma MCP + Claude Code: Give It Your Real Layout, Variables, and Components
Figma’s official hosted MCP server lets Claude Code read a linked frame’s layout, variables, and components instead of guessing from a screenshot. One command plus an OAuth sign-in.
6 min read →Exa MCP for Claude Code: AI-Native Web Search With Clean Page Content, No Key Needed
Exa’s hosted MCP server gives Claude Code web search that returns clean page content, plus a fetch tool that turns any URL into Markdown. One command, works without an API key.
7 min read →Notion MCP for Claude Code: The Official Hosted Server in 1 Command, No API Token
Notion’s official hosted MCP server lets Claude Code search, read, and update your Notion pages through OAuth. One command, no API token, and why you should skip the old self-hosted package.
6 min read →Grafana MCP for Claude Code: Query Dashboards, Metrics, and Alerts Directly
Grafana Labs’ official MCP server lets Claude Code search dashboards, run PromQL and LogQL, and read alert state on its own. Read-only setup in about 5 minutes.
8 min read →5 MCP Servers Shouldn’t Mean 5 Config Entries and 5 API Keys: Docker MCP Gateway Runs Them All Behind 1 Container-Isolated Entry
Every MCP server is another config line, another process with your full permissions, and another key in a file. Docker MCP Gateway puts them all in isolated containers behind a single Claude Code entry. About 5 minutes to set up.
8 min read →Sentry MCP for Claude Code: Pull Production Errors and Fix Them (1 Command, No Token)
Stop shuttling stack traces from Sentry into the chat. The official Sentry MCP lets Claude Code read production errors, breadcrumbs, and Seer root-cause analysis itself, then fix the code. One command plus OAuth sign-in, no token.
7 min read →Claude Code’s WebFetch Can’t Run JavaScript: Firecrawl MCP Gives It Real Web Scraping in 1 Command (No API Key)
WebFetch hands Claude Code a summary, not the page, and breaks on JS-rendered docs and pricing tables. Firecrawl MCP adds real search, scraping, and PDF parsing in one command, with no API key or Node.js on the keyless endpoint.
8 min read →Chrome DevTools MCP for Claude Code: Let It Read the Console, Network, and Performance (2-Minute Setup)
Stop being the copy-paste middleman between DevTools and Claude Code. The official Chrome DevTools MCP lets the agent read console errors, network requests, performance traces, and Lighthouse results itself. One-command install, Windows fix, and a real debugging test.
7 min read →Serena MCP: IDE-Level Symbol Navigation for Claude Code (3 Commands, 40+ Languages)
Claude Code greps and reads whole files to find one function, and your context window pays for it. Serena gives it IDE-grade symbol navigation (find symbol, find references, rename, symbol-level edits). Three commands, plus a copy-paste agent prompt.
8 min read →Anthropic’s Own Postgres MCP Server Is Archived and Has a Read-Only Bypass: 5 Database & Backend MCP Servers to Trust Instead (2026)
Anthropic’s archived reference Postgres MCP server has a documented read-only bypass, and it still shows up on popular lists. Five database and backend MCP servers for Claude Code that passed a real 2026 maintenance check: Postgres, Supabase, Redis, MongoDB, ClickHouse.
5 min read →Stop Installing Abandoned MCP Servers: 5 Community-Built Picks That Passed a 2026 Maintenance Check (and 2 Popular Ones That Failed)
Star counts measure past hype, not whether a server still works. Five community-built MCP servers for Claude Code that passed a real 2026 maintenance check, plus the two popular picks that failed and got cut. About 5 minutes to install all five.
6 min read →Your Prompt Rules Are Just Suggestions: Claude Code Hooks Auto-Format Every Edit and Block Dangerous Commands (2-Minute Setup)
A prompt that says ‘always run the formatter’ or ‘never run rm -rf’ can be forgotten. A hook can’t: it runs automatically and can block an action before it happens. Copy-paste starter config, a copy-paste agent-delegation prompt, and a real fire-verification test.
7 min read →Context7 MCP for Claude Code: Current, Version-Matched Docs Instead of Outdated API Code (2-Minute Setup)
Claude Code answers from training data, so it can suggest renamed methods and flags that no longer exist. Context7 MCP fetches current, version-matched library docs on demand. One-line install, a copy-paste agent-delegation prompt, and a real freshness-verification test.
6 min read →GitHub MCP Server for Claude Code: Direct Repo, PR, and CI Access in 3 Minutes
Stop shuttling issue text, PR details, and CI results into the chat. GitHub’s official MCP server lets Claude Code read issues, pull requests, and CI status directly. One-line install, a copy-paste agent-delegation prompt, and a real access-verification test.
6 min read →How to Add Playwright MCP to Claude Code: Real Browser Automation in 2 Minutes (+ Connection Fixes)
Add Playwright MCP to Claude Code with one command so it can open a real browser, click through flows, and read the rendered page. Flags, headless mode, and fixes for Failed to connect and connection_closed.
8 min read →How to Build a Claude Code Skill That Loads Itself (5-Minute SKILL.md Setup)
Tired of pasting the same review checklist and team conventions into every Claude Code session? A Skill is one SKILL.md file Claude pulls in automatically when it’s relevant. Build one from scratch in about 5 minutes: format, personal vs. project scope, verification, and a Q&A.
6 min read →10 ChatGPT Photo Editing Prompts That Keep the Face the Same
Ten copy-paste ChatGPT prompts for retouching, object removal, background swaps, and more, each written to protect the face and everything you didn’t ask to change.
9 min read →6 Prompts to Stop AI Writing From Sounding Robotic (Structure Fixes, Not Word Swaps)
AI writing gets spotted by its structure and rhythm more than its vocabulary. Six prompts that fix list-itis, hedging, flat rhythm, throat-clearing openers, and voice.
6 min read →Turn Any Tutorial Video Into a Step-by-Step AI Checklist (4-Prompt Workflow)
Get a YouTube transcript, then run four prompts to turn a 20-minute tutorial into a precise, reusable checklist with a what-could-go-wrong section.
5 min read →ChatGPT Text Chat Is Unlimited Now. Here’s What Still Runs Out (and How to Make It Last)
ChatGPT Free now includes unlimited text chats, but uploads, images, voice, deep research, and context are still limited. What each plan caps, and habits that stretch every limit.
6 min read →How to Prompt AI for Better Product Photos (Without a Studio): Template + 5 Prompts
A reusable prompt template and five prompts for turning phone photos into clean product shots with AI image editors, plus the accuracy rules sellers need.
5 min read →Claude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini in 2026: Which One Should You Actually Use?
A task-by-task comparison of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini using each vendor’s current plans: where your work lives, what the $20 tier buys, which limits bite, and a one-week way to decide.
6 min read →The RTFC Prompt Framework: Role, Task, Format, Constraint (1-Page Manual)
A four-slot framework (Role, Task, Format, Constraint) for writing AI prompts that produce usable output, with a fill-in template, a slot-by-slot table, and three worked examples.
14 min read →How to Write Midjourney Prompts: A Beginner’s Cheat Sheet (V8 Parameters)
The Midjourney prompt formula (subject, medium, lighting, composition) plus the parameters worth knowing in V8: –ar, –no, –chaos, –stylize, –raw, –seed, and –hd.
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