Patrick McCanna

This series covers prompt patterns for agents that run in a loop: the agent builds something, measures it, improves it, and repeats the cycle the next day without a person supervising. Across this series I cover:

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The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output

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Claude Code records each session to disk. Those logs include “thinking blocks” — the model’s own reasoning as it works.