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Claude Skills: Build the procedure first.
Claude Hooks: Enforcement inside the bundle.
Claude Code: The runtime.

Claude Skills

Claude Code skills are SKILL.md packages that extend the agent on demand. Custom slash commands merged into skills; follows the Agent Skills standard.

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15900000DR: 95AS: 94

Claude Hooks

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Deterministic shell hooks in Claude Code. Run commands on edit, stop, and permission events, plus optional prompt-based and HTTP hooks.

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15900000DR: 95AS: 94

Claude Code

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Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser. Reads the repo, edits files, runs commands, and connects MCP, skills, and hooks.

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15900000DR: 95AS: 94