# Articles Articles on Analog are the long-form reading worth your time — in-depth guides, tutorials, playbooks, and startup resources for building with AI. From hands-on how-tos and concept explainers to field reports from people shipping with agents and resources for AI founders, these are the pieces that actually teach. Browse the community's picks, ranked for signal over noise, and filter to guides, playbooks, or startup resources. This topic gathers the in-depth writing on building with AI: step-by-step tutorials, architecture and concept explainers, repeatable playbooks from practitioners, and the tools, templates, and reading that help founders build an AI startup. Unlike a quick blog post, these are the references you bookmark and come back to — the ones that change how you work rather than just informing you. Authorship spans the community — individual engineers, teams, vendors, and founders — and quality, not source, is what earns a place here. 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Every article is human-reviewed before it appears. ## Entries (ranked) - [How to make Claude time-travel and tell you how your plan dies](https://analoghq.ai/itsolelehmann/articles/claude-pre-mortem-skill) by itsolelehmann: How to turn Claude into a structured adversary by assuming your plan already failed, and a ready-to-upload skill that automates the pre-mortem for any decision. - [I Searched the Whole Claude Skills Ecosystem - These Are the Ones That Matter](https://analoghq.ai/polydao/articles/claude-skills-ecosystem-ones-that-matter) by polydao: A curated breakdown of the Claude skills ecosystem, what skills are, how they work, and the handful worth installing first. - [a color system that disappears](https://analoghq.ai/msllrs/articles/a-color-system-that-disappears) by msllrs: Explores the cultural fade of color in products alongside nanoscale methods that make material color disappear through structural interference. - [Loops explained: Claude, GPT, Mira and what actually works](https://analoghq.ai/anatolikopadze/articles/loops-explained-claude-gpt-mira) by anatolikopadze: A viral breakdown of AI agent loops, how Claude, ChatGPT, and Mira implement Plan-Execute-Verify cycles and when to actually build one. - [Why Your Claude Skill Sits Unused (And How to Make It Fire)](https://analoghq.ai/nurijanian/articles/build-once-reuse-forever-make-claude-follow-your) by nurijanian: A Claude skill is a folder of instructions that teaches Claude your team's way of doing a recurring task. Most are easy to build but quietly fail because Claude never reaches for them or the output is wrong. This guide shows you the few habits and the one testing loop that fix that. - [The Orchestration Tax](https://analoghq.ai/addyosmani/articles/the-orchestration-tax) by addyosmani: Addy Osmani's essay on why more AI agents don't mean more shipped work, and how to architect your attention like a concurrent system. - [Building recursive agent systems](https://analoghq.ai/leerob/articles/building-recursive-agent-systems) by leerob: Research synthesis covering two 2025 papers on recursive multi-agent systems: RecursiveMAS and RAH, for developers building agentic pipelines. - [How to Actually Use Claude. 18 steps that unlock 100% of its potential](https://analoghq.ai/anatolikopadze/articles/how-to-actually-use-claude) by anatolikopadze: An 18-step practical guide to unlocking Claude's full capability through Projects, Custom Instructions, and a personal knowledge base. - [You're doing RAG wrong](https://analoghq.ai/akshay-pachaar/articles/youre-doing-rag-wrong) by akshay-pachaar: A technical argument for replacing text chunks with structured QA packets in RAG pipelines, for ML engineers and data architects building production retrieval systems. - [Frontend Guidelines](https://analoghq.ai/bendc/articles/frontend-guidelines) by bendc: A concise, opinionated HTML/CSS/JS style reference for developers who want clear rules over framework churn, illustrated with bad/good code pairs throughout. --- [View on Analog](https://analoghq.ai/topics/articles)