You are using Claude Code to accelerate software development. Your team uses it for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation. You need to integrate it into your development workflow with custom slash commands, CLAUDE.md configurations, and understand when to use plan mode vs direct execution.
You’ve asked Claude Code to build a PDF report generation feature. The initial implementation queries the database correctly, but the output has formatting issues: table columns are too narrow causing content truncation, dates display without proper formatting, and page break handling is incorrect. You’ve noticed these issues interact—changing column widths affects how dates render, and page breaks depend on content height.
What’s the most effective approach for iterating toward a working solution?
The coordinator agent has AgentDefinition objects configured for all four specialized subagents, each with appropriate descriptions, prompts, and tool restrictions. During testing, you notice that the coordinator correctly reasons about when to delegate—it generates messages such as, “I’ll ask the web-search agent to find sources on this topic”—but no subagent execution occurs. The coordinator then proceeds as if the delegation happened and continues with incomplete information. Logs show no errors. What is the most likely cause?
You are building developer productivity tools using the Claude Agent SDK. The agent helps engineers explore unfamiliar codebases, understand legacy systems, generate boilerplate code, and automate repetitive tasks. It uses the built-in tools (Read, Write, Bash, Grep, Glob) and integrates with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
An engineer used Claude Code yesterday to investigate authentication flows in a legacy monolith, building up significant context over a 2-hour session. Today she wants to continue that specific investigation. She’s worked on three other codebases since then and knows the session was named “auth-deep-dive”.
How should she resume?
You are building a structured data extraction system using Claude. The system extracts information from unstructured documents, validates the output using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) schemas, and maintains high accuracy. It must handle edge cases gracefully and integrate with downstream systems.
Your system has been operating with 100% human review for 3 months. Analysis shows that extractions with model confidence ≥90% have 97% accuracy overall. To reduce reviewer workload, you plan to automate high-confidence extractions.
Before deploying, what validation step is most critical?
You are building a structured data extraction system using Claude. The system extracts information from unstructured documents, validates the output using JSON schemas, and maintains high accuracy. It must handle edge cases gracefully and integrate with downstream systems.
Your extraction system uses tool use with a JSON schema containing 12 fields and detailed descriptions, totaling approximately 2,500 tokens for the complete tool definition. Processing documents under 150,000 tokens yields 98% accuracy. For documents between 175,000 and 190,000 tokens, accuracy drops to 71%, with information from the final third consistently missed. The model’s context window is 200,000 tokens.
What is the most likely cause?