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The exact n8n flows, Claude Code setups, and prompts we ship — broken down step by step.
Teardowns of real automations. What worked, what did not, what shipped.
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Featured · July 22, 2026
We pulled our own Google Search Console panel: 2,033,312 impressions, 13,293 clicks, 0.65% CTR across 768 pages. Original first-party data on where zero-click search actually costs us clicks.
Featured · June 15, 2026
A forward deployed engineer builds inside a customer's team instead of from a distance. What the role covers, when it makes sense, and what to charge.
Featured · June 12, 2026
On June 10, 2026, jailbreak researcher Pliny the Liberator published what he claims is the full system prompt behind Claude Fable 5 on Claude.
Featured · June 11, 2026
Claude Fable 5 and Fable 5.1 cost $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. Fable 5.1 cuts cache reads to $0.25. Here is what real tasks cost, and how Opus 5.5 at $4/$20 compares.
Featured · June 9, 2026
Claude Fable 5 has been available again since July 1, 2026, after an 18-day export-control suspension. Fable 5.1 shipped September 1. Here is how to access both, what they cost, and how Mythos 5 access works.
Featured · March 29, 2026
The 12 best GitHub repos for Claude Code in 2026: production skills, Anthropic's official skills repo, TDD frameworks, MCP servers, agent harnesses, CI/CD integration and usage tracking.
Most teams hit a wall the moment Claude Code has to reason across more than one repo. The CLAUDE.md drifts, the MCP server is duplicated, sub-agents get copy-pasted, and nobody knows which repo owns which skill. This guide lays out six patterns we use at AY Automate to keep Claude Code coherent across many repos in 2026.
Claude Code skills and plugins look similar from the outside, but they solve different problems. Skills are prompted procedures the agent loads on demand. Plugins are packaged kits that bundle tools, agents, hooks, and MCP servers. Here is when to use each, when to combine them, and the patterns we use in production.
What AI facilities management tools automate well, how this differs from property management, and where facilities professional judgment still leads.
Where AI genuinely helps in vendor management (contract tracking, risk monitoring, SLA tracking), and where negotiation and relationship judgment still lead.
What AI load testing tools do well, how this differs from functional CI/CD testing, and where engineering judgment on results still leads.
What an AI QA testing agent does well (test generation, regression testing, cross-browser checks), where QA judgment still leads, and how this differs from agent evals.
GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 both list at $10 and $50 per million tokens. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, all released September 22, cost far less. Verified prices, one independent index and a task-by-task routing table, prices checked September 26, 2026.
About 88% of enterprise AI proofs of concept never reach production, according to IDC research cited by bex.co. We graded 9 small and mid-size AI automation agencies, AY Automate included, on whether their own sites show shipped production work and maintenance after launch.
AI agent incidents went from a survey statistic to a UN agenda item in 2026. What the OpenAI test agents did to Hugging Face, why static guardrails fail against agents that can plan around them, and the controls to have before an agent gets write access.