Agents All the Way Down - January 2026

Aight! First up, apologies for the rundown last month! I got the feedback, yes, I use AI to collate this newsletter, if I didn’t then I’d never send one! 😅 Last month I just ran the gen script and sent it, bc, busy, end of year and I didn’t have a great deal of time to edit it! So, ready for a rundown of what I have been doing this month? Again, I use Claude (Opus) to gather all my GitHub commits and blog posts for the last 30 days!

January (as most moths now to beer eel) was more Claude Code workflow and tooling. I made two marketplaces for the skills I use with Claude Code on the regular.

• claude-code-toolkit for general-purpose skills, the forced evaluation hook (to make skills activate when you need them) is included in this one.
• svelte-skills-kit for SvelteKit-specific patterns

I’ve made ecosystem skill in them is to plug my tools that I use in my AI toolbelt (ugh!).

The toolkit includes things like research, which will when needed clone a repo to gather details locally rather than randomly searching using web search. I added a reflect skill, so I can be all like “let’s review all the shit you got wrong to make sure it doesn’t happen again” other tools that I’ve probably already mentioned a load are bundled in there too.

Client Work

Busy month at XtendOps:

• Agent telemetry improvements
• Feature work on internal tooling modules
• UI/UX improvements across the platform
• Built Claude Code skills for automated dependency management
• Infrastructure and observability improvements

Blog Posts

Three I’ll mention here:

• Unlock Swarm Mode in Claude Code with claude-sneakpeek
• Organising Claude Code Skills Into Plugin Marketplaces
• Migrating Off Of Fathom Analytics

The Claude Code team mode (swarm) I’ve literally started using yesterday and, well, from initial use I’m going to favour this over a Ralph loop to be honest.

Open Source

Skills Ecosystem - Three repos working together:

• claude-code-toolkit - General-purpose skills: research (clones repos locally), skill-creator, plugin-dev, self-improving skills, forced evaluation hook
• svelte-skills-kit - SvelteKit patterns: LayerChart skill, template directives for @attach, auth references, data flow
• claude-skills-cli - CLI for creating skills with progressive disclosure validation

Ralph Loop Tooling:

• ralph-town - Ralph loop with gas limits in containers. Monorepo with @ralph-town/core + CLI (run, init, validate). Added mcp-ralph-town server, skills marketplace, devcontainers and local runtimes support, THIS IS REFERENCE MATERIAL NOW! With Claude Code new orchestration mode incoming this is already obsolete! 😅

This Site:

• Live visitor stats feature
• All-time analytics rollup fix
• Bot pattern improvements for cleaner data

Maintained:

• cclog - Sync Claude Code transcripts to SQLite. Added compiled binary releases via GH Actions
• svalettab - Palettab replacement. More fonts, disable loading animation, automated releases
• svelte.london - Switched to Guild API for events
• mcp-omnisearch - Unified MCP search server updates

Fin

All about that Claude Code right now! Thanks for reading, feel free to contact me on Bluesky if there’s anything you want to talk about!