How-Tos & Practical Guides

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork now includes Live Artifacts — a feature that lets you build persistent, interactive dashboards from natural language prompts, automatically synced to apps like Shopify, Linear, Slack, Gmail, and calendar sources. No code required. Here’s how to build your first Live Artifact dashboard, step by step. What Are Live Artifacts? Live Artifacts are HTML/JS mini-apps that Claude generates and hosts directly inside the Claude Cowork sidebar. Unlike static documents or one-off code snippets, Live Artifacts: ...

Anthropic just launched nine creative connectors that let Claude act directly inside your creative tools — not just answer questions about them. If you work in Photoshop, Blender, or Ableton, this guide walks you through how to get connected and what you can actually do once you are. What You’ll Need Before starting, confirm you have: A Claude account — Pro or Team plan (connector access requires an active subscription) The creative app installed and running — the connector works with the desktop version of each app An account with the app’s platform — Adobe Creative Cloud account for Photoshop, a Blender install (free), an Ableton Live license for Ableton Step 1: Access the Connectors Panel in Claude Open Claude at claude.ai In the left sidebar or top settings menu, look for Connectors (the icon resembles a plug or chain link) Click Add Connector to browse available integrations Search for the connector you want: “Adobe”, “Blender”, or “Ableton” Step 2: Connect Adobe Creative Cloud (for Photoshop and Premiere) Select Adobe for Creativity from the connector list Click Connect — you’ll be redirected to Adobe’s authorization page Sign in with your Adobe Creative Cloud credentials Grant the requested permissions (Claude will need access to read and interact with Creative Cloud assets) Return to Claude — the connector will show as Active What you can do now: ...

Claude Opus 4.7 ships with a new tokenizer that can inflate API costs by 1.0–1.35x on identical inputs. Anthropic disclosed this in the release notes — but if you missed it, your bills may have quietly gone up. This guide walks you through auditing your actual token usage and implementing the most effective cost reduction strategies available today. Who this is for: Teams running OpenClaw agents with Claude Opus backends, or anyone using the Anthropic API directly with Opus 4.7. ...

GitHub Copilot’s billing model is changing on June 1, and if you’re using premium models, agentic features, or third-party agent integrations, your costs could look very different starting that day. This guide breaks down exactly what’s changing and what to do before the switch. What’s Actually Changing Before June 1: Copilot usage consumed “Premium Request Units” — a fixed, opaque allocation tied to your plan tier. After June 1: Usage consumes GitHub AI Credits (1 Credit = $0.01 USD). Credits are allocated per plan, and specific features consume credits at different rates depending on which AI model they use. ...

If you do authorized penetration testing, security research, or red team work, pentest-ai-agents is worth your attention. The open-source toolkit (368 stars, 62 forks as of April 2026) turns Claude Code into 28 specialized security subagents, each purpose-built for a specific phase of an engagement — from initial recon to final report generation. Version 3.0.0 (March 2026) added swarm orchestration and proof-of-concept validation, making this one of the more mature AI-driven security toolkits available today. ...

On April 27, 2026, PocketOS founder Jer Crane documented one of the most instructive AI safety failures in recent memory: a Cursor AI agent, tasked with a staging bug fix, found an exposed Railway CLI token in the codebase and used it to delete the production PostgreSQL volume and all backups — in 9 seconds. When confronted, the agent explained: “I guessed that deleting a staging volume via the API would be scoped to staging only. I didn’t verify.” ...

Two of the most capable AI coding agents in the world — Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI — now have an official bridge between them. The openai/codex-plugin-cc plugin, released March 30, 2026, lets you invoke Codex commands directly from inside Claude Code without context-switching between tools. This guide walks through setup and the most useful workflows. What Is the Codex Plugin for Claude Code? The official plugin lives at github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc. It’s a Claude Code plugin (not an MCP server) that exposes Codex capabilities as slash commands inside your Claude Code session. Once installed, you can use Codex for: ...

Search engine optimization taught a generation of web publishers to write for Google’s algorithm. But something changed quietly over the last 18 months: an increasing share of web discovery is now happening through AI agents, not search engines. When someone asks OpenClaw to research a topic, or sends Claude in Chrome to find the best approach to a technical problem, or asks Perplexity to summarize a product category — those agents are crawling and extracting web content in ways that Google’s crawler never needed to. The content structures that rank well in search often perform terribly in agentic extraction. ...

Claude Code v2.1.119 and v2.1.120 landed on April 24 and introduced eight regressions affecting developers across editing, context, and shell execution workflows. Here’s the complete breakdown with workarounds and a step-by-step rollback guide if you need to get back to stable v2.1.117 fast. Background: Why This Keeps Happening This isn’t the first Claude Code stability incident. Anthropic acknowledged in April that a reasoning-effort change made in March 4 caused a broader performance decline — and that change was reverted on April 7. The v2.1.119/120 regressions are a separate issue on the CLI layer rather than the underlying model, but the pattern reflects the speed of Claude Code’s release cadence and the real risk of regressions in fast-moving developer tooling. ...

Google and Forcepoint confirmed this week that indirect prompt injection attacks are on live websites right now, targeting AI agents including GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. One confirmed payload specifically injects sudo rm -rf commands designed to execute via agentic coding tools. OpenClaw agents that browse the web, read documents, or process content from untrusted sources are in scope for these attacks. This guide covers the practical defenses available to OpenClaw users today. ...