Vol. I · No. 19FRI, MAY 8, 2026
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Top 6 Claude Skills: 15th April to 3rd May

Found some Open Source Claude skills from last 15 days. Some of them are pretty decent to use, personally liked the npm downloads one. Check out: **- brand-alchemy:** A brand strategy and naming skill that interrogates your thoughts for branding first, then applies phonosemantics, category design frameworks, and auto-checks domain availability across any TLD. **- npm-downloads-to-leads:** Give it a list of npm packages. It pulls 12 weeks of download data, scores each one by growth velocity, maps maintainers to GitHub and X, and gives you a ranked lead brief who built it, how to reach the...

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Is Codex the best right now?

Reddit discussion questioning Codex's current competitive position and download trends; lacks substantive analysis or new information.

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built a plugin so my parallel Claude Code sessions can message each other instead of me alt-tabbing

I usually have two or more Claude Code sessions open at once. One in the backend repo, one in the frontend. Half the time I'd be in the frontend asking "wait, what shape did the user object end up as?", then alt-tab, ask the backend session, copy the answer, alt-tab back, paste. The other Claude was right there. It already knew. I was the bottleneck. So I wrote a plugin called Relay. In the frontend window I just say: ▎ask the backend session what the user object looks like The backend session sees the question between turns, answers it, and the reply pops up in my frontend session as a n...

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Opus 4.7 is beyond bad

Reddit user reports degraded performance in Claude Opus 4.7 compared to 4.6, speculating smaller base model or optimization tradeoffs.

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Lesson from sam altman

Reddit post recounts Sam Altman interview on talent retention at OpenAI during Meta's AI hiring competition.

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