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Hands-on guides to LLMs, agents, prompt engineering, and the AI tools Botmonster runs every day for real work, not demos.

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Awesome Claude Skills has 1,001 unmerged pull requests

The Awesome Claude Skills list promises 1000+ skills and links 164. Its queue holds 1,001 open pull requests against 38 merges, and 78 links are dead.

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code-review-graph trims 82x tokens on a typical repo

code-review-graph MCP token reduction is about 82x on a median repo. The 528x figure is one repository's best case, and the project says so.

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AI Engineering from Scratch is 1,095 hours, not 320

The AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum advertises about 320 hours. Its own roadmap phases add up to 1,094.5, with capstones alone claiming 620.

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Best AI text tools 2026

Best AI text tools 2026 for drafting, summarizing, grammar, and translation. Which free tiers finish a real job and which stop you at the paywall.

Make Opus 5 less verbose with an output style and a hook

Make Opus 5 less verbose with a custom output style, a UserPromptSubmit hook, and fewer CLAUDE.md rules. The env var everyone shares backfires.

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ego lite lets your AI agent use every login you own

The ego lite browser for AI agents gives each agent an isolated Space that inherits your real logins. The project ships the skill, not the browser.