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Claude Code is not free: it comes bundled with a Pro or Max subscription, or you pay per token through the API. This piece lays out what each rail costs today so you can pick the one that fits how much you code.
Claude Code skills are SKILL.md files that Claude loads on its own or on command. This piece covers the frontmatter that matters and the exact description rewrite that took one of my own skills from missing half its prompts to catching all of them.
Cline vs Aider in 2026, judged by someone who lives in coding agents daily. The interface split is real, but the thing that decides whether you ship is per-task routing, not the tool logo. Here is the working model.
A non-traditional operator running real production sites on Claude Code, Coolify, PocketBase on Oracle ARM, and Cloudflare. The real workflow is Opus as orchestrator plus subagents executing, governed by hard gates: verify before claiming done, snapshot before destructive ops, and a flat refusal of --no-verify and --force. Here is what works, and the failure modes a non-engineer hits shipping to prod in India.
I run Claude Code every working day across a dozen-plus projects from one Linux box in India. Here is the real Max plan economics for a solo operator (I ran 20x until 10 Jul 2026, then moved to 5x), the fork-mode flag for headless fanouts, /fast mode on Opus, and the 5-hour meter that punishes too many headless runs.
Prompt engineering for Claude Opus 4.6 through the lens of Indian use cases, multilingual outputs, regional handling, business document templates, and legal analysis patterns.