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AI automation insights
Practical guides for Australian businesses navigating AI automation. No jargon, no hype — just what works.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Claude Code settings.json: Reference Conventions for Australian Teams
Three engineers, one repo, three different agent behaviours. The root cause is almost always the same: no agreed convention for what goes in Claude Code's settings.json. The five-field structure that fixes it.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
MCP Transport Choices: stdio, HTTP, or SSE for Enterprise
The wrong MCP transport choice costs a sprint to fix and six figures to remediate. Here is how to pick the right one before the first line of code.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Claude Code Hooks: Guardrails Without the Latency Tax
Australian engineering teams are using Claude Code hooks to satisfy APRA CPS 234 and Privacy Act requirements without slowing developers. The hook layer adds three seconds of overhead per session against four to six hours saved.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Claude Code Custom Slash Commands: 5 Patterns to Standardise
Most Australian engineering teams treat Claude Code slash commands as a personal scratchpad. The teams compounding value share, version, and review them like internal tooling.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Testing MCP Servers: A Repeatable Approach for Australian Builders
Most MCP servers in Australian production are tested in chat. Here is how to build a three-layer test stack that catches regressions before they reach your clients.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Streaming Claude Tool Use: 3 UX Patterns Worth Shipping This Quarter
Three UX patterns that keep Australian SaaS users engaged during long Claude tool calls, with real abandonment data and the two-week technical implementation behind them.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Claude 1M Context Window: Patterns for Long Legal and Insurance Docs
A 1 million token context window changes what is possible with long legal and insurance documents. The question is not what fits but how you structure what you feed in.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
MCP Error Envelope Design: A Production Standard for Australian Teams
An MCP tool that throws a raw stack trace has stopped being a tool. The five-field error envelope pattern is the fix, and the numbers say it is worth the three-day retrofit.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
MCP Legacy System Integration for Australian Mid-Market IT
Half the value in Australian mid-market IT sits in systems written before 2000. An MCP server is the fastest path to making that data legible to Claude without a platform replacement.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Idempotent MCP Tool Calls: How to Stop Agents Double-Charging
An Australian BNPL firm's 2024 double-charge incident cost $280,000 after a network timeout caused an agent to retry a payment tool call. The MCP idempotency pattern that would have prevented it takes three days to implement.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
The MCP SaaS Connector Pattern Australian Teams Keep Rebuilding
Every Australian team building on Salesforce, HubSpot, Xero, or ServiceNow is writing the same connector code. Here is the reference shape that saves around $45,000 per build.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
PDF Extraction with Claude: What Australian Ops Teams Are Missing
Australian operations teams are sitting on hundreds of thousands of dollars in locked labour cost inside PDFs. Here is the production extraction pattern that gets 85 percent of documents handled automatically.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Custom Claude Skills vs Inline Prompts: When Each Wins
Most engineering teams choose between Claude Skills and inline prompts on instinct. The decision is mostly mechanical, and three questions settle it.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Claude Skill Versioning and Distribution for Engineering Teams
Australian engineering teams shipping their first Claude Skills face a predictable problem: three undocumented versions on three laptops within a quarter. The Skill lifecycle loop fixes that.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Industry Guide
Mortgage Broker Claude Automation for Australian Aggregators
Australian mortgage aggregators are running their top brokers into the ground with administrative overhead. Here is where Claude fits, what the pilot numbers look like, and the rollout pattern that actually produces adoption.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Claude Computer Use Safety Checklist for Australian Enterprise Pilots
Computer use agents act on what they observe. Without the right safety controls in place, one unexpected modal separates your pilot from an incident that reaches legal and compliance review.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Industry Guide
Australian Banks Are Cutting AML/CTF Investigator Backlogs With Claude
Australian banks face growing AUSTRAC caseloads with flat investigator headcount. Here is where Claude fits into the AML/CTF workflow, and what the economics actually look like.
May 2026 • 7 min read • Industry Guide
How Australian Mining Teams Compress the Drill-Log Cycle With Claude
Australian mining teams spend up to $480,000 a year on geologist time drafting from drill data. Here is how a Claude-assisted geological reporting workflow compresses the cycle from drill bit to signed report.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Cowork Plugins for Internal Teams: The Ops Leader's Playbook
Most AI workflows stay with the power user who built them. Cowork plugins change that by bundling MCPs, Skills, and slash commands into one artefact any team member can install and run.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Claude Code Plugin Marketplace: The Platform Pattern That Scales
Australian engineering platforms shipping Claude Code to 50+ developers face a coordination problem: six teams, six versions of the same Skill. A private plugin marketplace is the fix. Here is how to build one that compounds.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Industry Guide
Open Banking CDR Pipelines: Where Claude Agents Earn Their Keep
CDR accreditation gives Australian lenders a 90-day window into every applicant's financial life. Most are still reading it like a bank statement.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Why Australian Engineering Teams Underuse Claude Skills
Teams with strong Claude skill discovery see 4x more weekly invocations than teams without one. Here is what separates them, and what the difference is worth in AUD.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Industry Guide
APRA CPS 230 and Claude Agents: Compliance for Australian Banks
CPS 230 is live and APRA is asking hard questions about AI operational risk. Australian banks that get the compliance shape right move Claude pilots to production in months, not years.
May 2026 • 6 min read • Technical
Claude Agent SDK Patterns for Australian Production Agents
Australian development teams using Claude Agent SDK patterns are shipping production agents in three weeks instead of eight. Here is the build shape, the cost math, and when not to use it.
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