Skills vs. Rules in Claude Code — What Auto-Loads, What Loads on Demand, and the Context Cost

Inside a Claude Code project’s .claude/ folder, rules and skills sit side by side: Markdown files that look almost identical — and behave in exactly opposite ways. That contrast is what Claude Code skills vs rules comes down to: rules are fully in context at every session start; a skill costs next to nothing until someone invokes it. Get … Read more

Deriving SQL Conventions with Claude Code — the Generate-Refine-Derive Loop

An AI writes you a stored procedure in seconds. It compiles, it runs – and it looks like a stranger wrote it. The next artifact looks different again. Generated SQL is technically correct but stylistically arbitrary – and without an enforced convention, a generated collection drifts apart just like one five developers write by hand. The obvious … Read more

AI-Assisted SQL Development with Claude Code — Rules, Skills and Agents That Enforce Conventions

A stored procedure, a migration script, a complex report — Claude Code writes them in seconds. That’s the easy part. The hard part starts afterwards: generated SQL that belongs to no one drifts apart just like hand-written code — only faster, because the AI produces hundreds of lines on demand. AI-assisted SQL development only pays off when the … Read more