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Claude Code Sub-Agents: Task-Specific AI Assistants

2025-07-26

Claude Code introduces sub-agents, specialized AI assistants designed to handle specific tasks. Each sub-agent boasts its own context, custom system prompts, and tool permissions, leading to more efficient problem-solving. They're configurable, reusable, and boost team collaboration. Creating sub-agents is straightforward via the `/agents` command, allowing for creation, editing, and deletion. Leveraging sub-agents significantly improves Claude Code's task efficiency and accuracy.

Claude Code Hooks: Extending Functionality with User-Defined Shell Commands

2025-07-01

Claude Code introduces hooks, user-defined shell commands that execute at various stages of its lifecycle. This allows for deterministic control over Claude Code's behavior, ensuring actions like automatic code formatting, logging, and custom permission checks always occur. Hooks transform suggestions into reliable application-level code, enhancing functionality and simplifying workflows. While powerful, users must prioritize security and ensure commands are safe and reliable.

Anthropic's Claude Code SDK: Powering AI-Driven Coding Assistants

2025-05-19

Anthropic has released the Claude Code SDK, enabling developers to integrate Claude Code into their applications and build AI-powered coding assistants. The SDK currently supports command-line usage, with TypeScript and Python SDKs coming soon. It offers features like multi-turn conversations, custom system prompts, and MCP configuration for extending functionality via external servers. The SDK provides text, JSON, and streaming JSON output formats, along with best practices for error handling, session management, and rate limiting. A real-world example is the Claude Code GitHub Actions, which automates code review and more.