# claude-code

10 posts

My Virtual Pentest and DevOps Team

If you're building apps with AI and putting them live, you have to at least try to secure them. Here's how I did it with bash, open source tools, and Claude Code.

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Pentesting with Rook

Anthropic added a companion to Claude Code called Buddy. Mine's an axolotl named Rook. I've been running a pentest suite against Cookie and its infrastructure over the past few evenings, and Rook kept catching things I was missing.

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Guardrails for Claude Code: Hooks, Rules, and Constitutions

Claude Code hooks, rules, and a project constitution enforced via GitHub Spec Kit. A primer on each layer, with a real use case: keeping ES5 compatibility on a recipe manager that runs on iPads from 2012.

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Rockport: A Self-Hosted LLM Proxy

I built a self-hosted LiteLLM proxy on EC2 behind a Cloudflare Tunnel. It routes Claude Code traffic to AWS Bedrock with per-key budgets, idle auto-stop, image generation, video generation, and image editing. The repo is public and I'd welcome feedback from anyone who works with this sort of infrastructure.

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Building an Evaluation Harness with Claude Code

I built an evaluation harness to measure the quality of LLM-generated pixel art sprites. Five rounds of calibration, a stubborn intent-vs-reality gap, and some useful C tools for getting assets onto classic Macs.

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I Ditched My Planning System for Fully Automated GitHub Spec Kit

I built 14 custom skills, 4 hooks, and 1.2 MB of phase plans for PeerTalk. Eight phases done, real hardware tested, proper results. Then I started again from scratch with Spec Kit across three repos. Automated builds, hardware testing on Classic Macs, and a cross-platform chat app built in hours.

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Automating Performance Tests on a Performa 6200

How MCP servers and Claude Code skills turned manual hardware testing into an automated workflow. From FileZilla hell to one-command benchmarks on a 30-year-old Mac.

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Project-Specific Claude Code Customisations

Building custom MCP servers, skills, hooks, and agents for Claude Code. A workshop with Anthropic led me to create a full development toolkit for the PeerTalk SDK project.

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A Code Review of the Rapid Prototype

The CI pipeline had 15 jobs tracking coverage, complexity, and security. This post examines what they measured, what they missed, and what improvements were made for future projects.

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Rapid Prototyping with Claude Code: A 3-Day Challenge

A 3-day challenge to build a working prototype with as many features as possible, plus a day of CI/CD automation. Django backend, React frontend, ES5 interface for legacy browsers, and AI-powered features.

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