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This Week in AI Coding: Claude Code News, Ralph, and GLM-4.7-Flash

January 22, 2026
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Useful AI coding links to read/watch for this week of January 22, 2026.

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How I Built a Gallery Project with Claude Code (Laravel/Filament) in 1.5 Hours

This is a 29-minute video tutorial for Premium members of AI Coding Daily, showing step-by-step how I work with planning, executing and reviewing Laravel project code with Claude Code. This is a real project from Upwork, which was evaluated at $200 fixed price.


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NEW in Claude Code: MCPs Won’t “Eat” So Much Context

A new improvement in Claude Code v2.1.7: Tool Search for MCPs.


CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md: Detect Useless Parts and Clean Up

I saw this tweet by Matt and decided to try out his prompt.


NEW in Claude Code: Clear Context and Bypass Permissions

A small improvement in Claude Code, but I think it may confuse some people on how plan mode actually works, so I decided to shoot a video.


Claude Code Prompt: Review AI Agent Work Against Specification

Another great prompt by Thariq from Claude Code team.


Claude Code StatusLine Explained (Free Script Generator)

Claude Code has a useful statusline tool. I will explain how it works, what you can show, and how you can customize the script.


AI Coding Community

Introducing GLM-4.7-Flash: Your local coding and agentic assistant.
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Setting a new standard for the 30B class, GLM-4.7-Flash balances high performance with efficiency, making it the perfect lightweight deployment option. Beyond coding, it is also recommended for creative writing,


Ollama now has Anthropic API compatibility.
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This enables tools like Claude Code to be used with open-source models.


This is the best write up of the Ralph technique I’ve seen for non-technical users to understand
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Check the example repo for a cursor port and just ask your agent of choice to make it work for claude/codex/droid. Don’t use anthropic Ralph plugin!


We just released the new version of the Cursor CLI.
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  • plan mode
  • ask mode
  • handoff to cloud agents
  • mcp one-click auth
  • word-level diffs

and lots of other polish and improvements, details below...


Cursor tip: if you're doing web dev, there's an integrated browser! x.com

The agent can read console logs, network requests, and even control the browser to do automated testing for you.


OpenSkills v1.5.0 is out. The Universal Skills loader for AI Coding Agents.
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The Universal Skills loader for AI Coding Agents


The best way to build autonomously in Claude Code. x.com

I built this by combining three incredible open source projects:

  1. Ralph by @GeoffreyHuntley
  2. snarktank/ralph by @ryancarson
  3. BMAD Method

You plan with GPT 5.2 Codex XHigh in Codex CLI. Then implement with Opus 4.5 in Claude Code.
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Planning w/ GPT 5.2 Codex XHigh leads to

  • Fewer bugs
  • More maintainable code
  • Cleaner implementations

This saves hours even if Codex is slower.


GitHub on X: "You can now use your GitHub Copilot subscription with @opencode"
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Vercel just dropped 10+ years worth of Claude Code Skills with all their frontend learnings & optimizations
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Ralph is going to love looping this


We turned 9+ years of our React Native production experience into skills that your agents can actually use.
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IS_DEMO flag. hides email and org for Claude Code. useful for screenshot and streaming.
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How to write a good spec for AI agents
addyosmani.com

Learn how to write effective specifications for AI coding agents to improve clarity, focus, and productivity in your AI-driven development workflows.


Guys, be careful downloading random skills. they can be full of malicious intent. DYOR.
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"Claude hit the maximum length for this conversation". How do I start a new chat with all context retained?
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I have been developing a website using Claude for the past 3 days and just now, I hit the maximum length for the chat. How I've been using it is...


We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor. It ran uninterrupted for one week.
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It's 3M+ lines of code across thousands of files. The rendering engine is from-scratch in Rust with HTML parsing, CSS cascade, layout, text shaping, paint, and a custom JS VM.


New in Claude Code on the web and desktop: diff view.
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See the exact changes Claude made without leaving the app.


GPT-5.2 Codex is now available in Cursor!
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We believe it's the frontier model for long-running tasks.


obra/superpowers
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Claude Code superpowers: core skills library.


OpenAI uploaded a 53 minute tutorial on how to use Codex effectively!
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https://t.co/Mguvp6Lsv6


Here are my CLAUDE​.md additions for making plan mode 10x better
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Before: unreadably long plans After: concise, useful plans with followup questions


“bro I spent all weekend in Claude Code it’s incredible”. “oh nice, what did you build?” x.com

This tweet sums up AI hype pretty nicely. Do people actually build something USEFUL?


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