What's Possible
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What’s Possible
Here’s a tour of what an advanced setup looks like — not to teach it, but to show you the direction.
Custom agents — beyond slash commands, Claude Code can run agents that operate semi-autonomously. An agent might watch your inbox, triage items, and route them to the right project folder without you asking. Agents are powerful and require careful design — they’re acting on your behalf with significant autonomy.
Skills — repeatable behaviours encoded as markdown files in your global Claude configuration. A skill might define how Claude should write in your voice, how it should format a meeting summary, or how it should approach a specific kind of analysis. Skills travel across sessions and projects.
MCP servers — the Model Context Protocol lets Claude connect to external services as first-class tools. Want Claude to query your calendar directly, search the web, or interact with your task manager? MCP servers make that possible. There’s a growing ecosystem of open-source MCP servers for common services.
Hooks — Claude Code supports lifecycle hooks that run automatically at certain points. A pre-session hook might update your vault’s context file with today’s date and recent activity. A post-session hook might log what you worked on. Hooks make the system more ambient — doing useful things in the background without you thinking about them.