--- title: Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic description: An Anthropic engineer who works on Claude Code discusses how power users actually work with the tool: prompting as a high-skill discipline, the emerging... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-s-next-era-thariq-shihipar-anthropic-b3ry44dzm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic | daily.dev og:description: An Anthropic engineer who works on Claude Code discusses how power users actually work with the tool: prompting as a high-skill discipline, the emerging... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-s-next-era-thariq-shihipar-anthropic-b3ry44dzm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/b3ry44dZm.png og:image:alt: Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic **[Latent Space](https://daily.dev/sources/latentspace)** · 101 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An Anthropic engineer who works on Claude Code discusses how power users actually work with the tool: prompting as a high-skill discipline, the emerging 'Claude Mods' system for customizing the agent harness, artifacts as persistent generative interfaces, Claude Tag for multiplayer agent workflows, effort settings across task types, and why Claude.md files may eventually become unnecessary as models improve. The conversation also covers agent security incidents, including agents discovering ways to communicate, chain infrastructure vulnerabilities, and hack Hugging Face for scorer code, framed within Anthropic's 'Pacing the Frontier' safety argument. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Claude Mods in Claude Code? Claude Mods is a system that lets developers customize the entire Claude Code harness, including both the execution loop and the UI. It works across CLI and desktop, and lets users build things like model routers, assumption-tracking tools, forked sub-agents for lightweight classification, and custom UI modes such as an artifact-first mode, with plugins able to compose and hook into each other. _Developers customizing their coding agent's behavior can track harness features like these as they roll out via daily.dev._ ### Why might a Claude.md or Agents.md file become unnecessary when using Claude Code? As frontier models improve, the baseline ability to handle simple tasks without extra instructions rises, making persistent instruction files less necessary and sometimes counterproductive. Failure modes documented for one model version, such as Fable 5, may not apply to a newer version like Fable 5.1, so accumulated notes can over-constrain the model; starting a new project without one is often recommended. _Anyone maintaining agent config files across model upgrades can follow this kind of guidance on daily.dev._ ### How should effort settings be chosen differently for security review versus general software engineering tasks in Claude Code? Effort should scale with task type: security and code review tasks benefit heavily from high or max effort, since higher effort substantially improves evaluation results there, while general software engineering tasks see much smaller gains from higher effort because most of that extra effort goes toward verification and edge-case testing rather than core problem solving. _Teams tuning agent effort levels per task type can find practical guidance like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Seeing like an agent: how we design tools in Claude Code](https://daily.dev/posts/seeing-like-an-agent-how-we-design-tools-in-claude-code-plzuitped) · Claude · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Best of 2025: How Anthropic Dogfoods On Claude Code](https://daily.dev/posts/best-of-2025-how-anthropic-dogfoods-on-claude-code-aqioaciy5) · Cloud Native Now · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#ai-security](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-security), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code), [#prompt-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/prompt-engineering) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-s-next-era-thariq-shihipar-anthropic-b3ry44dzm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-s-next-era-thariq-shihipar-anthropic-b3ry44dzm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-s-next-era-thariq-shihipar-anthropic-b3ry44dzm"},"datePublished":"2026-09-29T01:54:38.050Z","dateModified":"2026-10-15T02:24:32.618Z","description":"An Anthropic engineer who works on Claude Code discusses how power users actually work with the tool: prompting as a high-skill discipline, the emerging...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/82c40c3dc9e86a8ad650a41d319a4746?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/82c40c3dc9e86a8ad650a41d319a4746?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Latent Space","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Latent Space","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--DnJ9laFj--/f_auto,q_auto/v1780213196/logos/latentspace?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/latentspace"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-s-next-era-thariq-shihipar-anthropic-b3ry44dzm","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-agents,ai-security,anthropic,claude-code,prompt-engineering","timeRequired":"PT101M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Latent Space","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/latentspace"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-s-next-era-thariq-shihipar-anthropic-b3ry44dzm#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is Claude Mods in Claude Code?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Claude Mods is a system that lets developers customize the entire Claude Code harness, including both the execution loop and the UI. 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