The Scalably blog

Field notes and working guides.

Practical guides and measured field reports on business agents, agent engineering, local inference and SEO.

53 articles · 13–24

Claude·Guide

Claude Code best practices from real client work

Default-deny permissions, a CLAUDE.md that earns its tokens, hooks as real guardrails instead of reminders, and knowing when not to delegate.

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Claude·Guide

Claude Code commands: what changed, and how to write one

Custom commands are now skills. Where the file goes, the precedence order people get wrong, the zero-based arguments trap, and shell injection inside a command.

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Agents·Guide

How to build an AI agent: four ways, with code

A complete agent loop in fifteen lines, the four ways to build an agent and when each is right, and what actually breaks once it runs on live tools.

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Agents·Guide

AI agent development cost: what actually drives it

Real model cost per task from two anonymous production systems, plus the integration, evaluation, and maintenance work that dominates the bill.

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Claude·Guide

Claude Code MCP: how to add an MCP server

The claude mcp add command, the three scopes and which file each writes to, the .mcp.json your team commits, and how project servers get approved before they run.

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Claude·Guide

Claude Code settings.json: the configuration guide

The files that merge into one config, the permissions rules that decide what runs, env, MCP servers, and the multi-tenant default-deny setup we run across client accounts.

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AI SEO·Guide

AI-driven SEO tools: hype vs the verifiable core

The line between marketing-hype AI features and the genuinely useful, checkable ones.

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AI SEO·Guide

What an AI SEO agency actually does (and doesn't)

The honest scope: verifiable execution at scale, not strategy or judgment. Why that line matters in 2026.

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AI SEO·Guide

AI SEO services: what they actually deliver

What the label really means, and what to demand from a provider: a cold audit you can check, not a pitch.

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AI SEO·Guide

AI tools for SEO: the ones that hold up at scale

Which AI tools survive the verification test on real client work, and which fall apart past a demo.

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AI SEO·Guide

The best AI SEO tools 2026: where DFY beats DIY

Where DIY AI tools win, and where they hit the verification wall and done-for-you takes over. Real categories, not affiliate fluff.

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Rank tracking·Guide

Daily rank tracking for agencies without the per-seat bill

What to actually watch, why daily, and how to escape the per-seat pricing trap as you add clients.

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