Claude Agent SDK Credit Pool: A Plain Guide to the June 15 Change
On June 15 Anthropic split Agent SDK billing into a separate monthly pool. Plain guide to what changed, what breaks, and how to keep your tools running.
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Tutorials and reference guides for Anthropic Claude Code, the agentic command-line tool for software engineers. Articles in this section cover hooks, slash commands, skills, subagents, memory files, the /doctor and /compact commands, and the workflows that hold up in real repos. Every guide is written from real use on production codebases, with named version numbers, exact terminal output, and the actual error messages users hit. If you are new to Claude Code, start with the basics and work outward to the hooks and skills sections.
On June 15 Anthropic split Agent SDK billing into a separate monthly pool. Plain guide to what changed, what breaks, and how to keep your tools running.
Claude Code feels slow when context bloats, MCP tools chain in loops, or memory files grow. See the seven fixes with /doctor and /compact walkthroughs.
What Claude Code's /goal command and Agent View do, how they work together, how to write a completion condition that holds, and when to actually use them.
A plain-English breakdown of Anthropic's internal report on how its own teams use Claude Code: the real workflows, the numbers, and what you can copy.
Claude Code Ultraplan moves your planning to the cloud while your terminal stays free. Here is what it does, how to use it, and when it actually helps.
I used Claude Code and Cursor side by side for three months on production work. Here is where each one wins, where it loses, and the one I kept.
AutoDream cleans Claude Code's MEMORY.md between sessions. /dream runs it on demand. See what gets rewritten and how to turn it off.
How Claude Code Outcomes work, why a separate grading agent improves agent quality, and how to write a rubric that catches the failures you actually care about.
What Claude Code Routines are, how scheduled, API, and GitHub triggers work, and seven practical workflows you can copy into your own setup this week.
A plain-English comparison of Claude Code skills, MCP servers, subagents, and hooks. When to pick each, with a decision tree, code, and common confusion.
Build your first Claude Code skill. See the SKILL.md format, where skills live on disk, the YAML frontmatter fields, and how to test the skill.
A friendly, hands-picked list of the best MCP servers to use in 2026, with notes on what each one does, who it is for, and when it actually helps.
Hooks let Claude Code run small commands before and after it does things. This guide explains what they are, how to set them up, and the few mistakes to avoid.
A short and friendly walk through of building a Model Context Protocol server in Node.js. Plain code, no jargon, and the small mistakes to watch for.