AI coding guides & resources
Engineering decisions, tutorials, and video guides from the OTF team.
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Your CLAUDE.md is too long. The 200-line ceiling that actually works.
Keep CLAUDE.md under 200 lines with non-negotiables on top — the ceiling that works.
8 min read
Cursor 3's parallel agents change what a template ships with
Parallel subagents punish vague conventions. Templates must ship forbid-lists, locked libraries, and dependency-graph prompts.
6 min read
shadcn cli v4 just turned every component library into a payload
shadcn CLI v4 turns design systems into installable registry payloads. Agents install them natively — libraries that skip it fall behind.
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Expo SDK 54's precompiled XCFrameworks cut our iOS build from 14 min to 4
Expo SDK 54's precompiled XCFrameworks cut our iOS build from 14 minutes to 4 — the mechanism, the caveats, and the EAS Update win.
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Claude Code doubled its limits. Your codebase context is the new bottleneck.
Usage caps for AI coding tools keep moving. The durable lesson: headroom helps, but codebase context is the real bottleneck. Evergreen retrofit.
7 min read
Open Cowork: What the Open-Source Claude Desktop Reveals About AI Agent Tooling
Open Cowork wraps Claude Code in a one-click desktop app with VM sandboxing, a Skills system, and MCP connectors — then gives you the source. Here's what that architecture teaches us.
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Vercel's Agent Browser is 15× cheaper than Playwright MCP — and that's not the most interesting part
Why a structured accessibility tree beats raw pixels for AI browser automation, and what shipping as a Rust CLI (instead of an MCP server) actually unlocks.
8 min read
Use @supabase/server for backend route auth
Use @supabase/server to wrap backend routes with auth context. Review its auth modes, RLS boundaries, and the Hono adapter setup.
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How to build cross-platform templates AI coding tools actually respect
Make a codebase easier for AI coding tools to understand with clear instructions, examples, and current project conventions.
7 min read
Share UI components across web and mobile
Learn how shared design tokens keep web and native interfaces aligned while each platform keeps an implementation suited to its runtime.
11 min read
Anthropic Academy: Claude Code in Action
Master Claude Code through Anthropic's official training—structured exercises, real-world patterns, and insider tips straight from the team that built it.
15 min
Rams, a Design Engineer for Your Coding Agent
By rams.ai
12 min
On Coding Agents and the Future of Design
By Jeff Veen
12 min
Run Claude Code + Replit on Your Phone
By Matt Palmer
8 min
Best Practices for Cursor
By Cursor
8 min
GitFig | Figma Plugin That Versions Design Like Code
By GitFig
12 min
Design to Code with Figma MCP and Cursor
By Sergei Chyrkov
10 min
AGENTS.md: The Universal Agent Configuration File
By Geoffrey Huntley
8 min
