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Claude Code Hooks: A Complete Guide to Automating Your AI Coding Workflow

· 10 min read
Scott Havird
Engineer at Georgia-Pacific · ex-WarnerMedia Innovation Lab (ContentAI) · decade shipping AI-powered platforms

Claude Code Hooks: A Complete Guide to Automating Your AI Coding Workflow

If you've been using Claude Code for more than a week, you've probably noticed a pattern: you keep telling it the same things. "Run prettier after editing." "Don't touch the .env file." "Run the tests before you stop." These aren't complex instructions — they're rules. And rules shouldn't depend on an LLM remembering to follow them.

That's exactly what Claude Code hooks solve. They're deterministic automation that runs at specific points in Claude Code's lifecycle, executed by the harness itself — not by Claude. If you configure a hook to format code after every edit, it will format code after every edit. No exceptions. No "I forgot."

TL;DR

Claude Code hooks turn shaky CLAUDE.md instructions into deterministic automation — the harness runs them, not the LLM. This guide covers the seven practical patterns I use in production: formatting, secret protection, notifications, quality gates, and more. Each with config and rationale.

Building Scalable Video Generation with Remotion and Docker: A Developer's Complete Guide

· 7 min read
Scott Havird
Engineer at Georgia-Pacific · ex-WarnerMedia Innovation Lab (ContentAI) · decade shipping AI-powered platforms

Building Scalable Video Generation with Remotion and Docker: A Developer's Complete Guide

If you've ever wanted to programmatically generate videos at scale, you've probably discovered that traditional video editing tools don't cut it for automated workflows. Enter Remotion—a React-based video generation framework that lets you create videos using familiar web technologies. But here's the kicker: when you combine Remotion with Docker and GitHub Actions, you get a production-ready video generation pipeline that can scale from your laptop to the cloud.

TL;DR

Scalable programmatic video generation using Remotion, Docker, and GitHub Actions. Turn React components into rendered MP4s in CI — reproducible, parallelizable, and free of the flakiness that comes with running a headless browser on a developer laptop.

Claude Code Template: Accelerating AI-Assisted Development

· 6 min read
Scott Havird
Engineer at Georgia-Pacific · ex-WarnerMedia Innovation Lab (ContentAI) · decade shipping AI-powered platforms

Claude Code Template: Accelerating AI-Assisted Development

The future of software development is here, and it's conversational. With AI coding assistants becoming increasingly sophisticated, the way we structure and approach development projects is evolving rapidly. Today, I'm excited to share the Claude Code Template – a comprehensive starter template designed to maximize productivity in AI-assisted development workflows.

TL;DR

Claude Code starter template: devcontainer, custom slash commands, hooks, CLAUDE.md patterns, and analytics wired in from the first commit. Designed to get a team productive with AI-assisted development on day one, not week four.

Building AI Teams with CrewAI

· 4 min read
Scott Havird
Engineer at Georgia-Pacific · ex-WarnerMedia Innovation Lab (ContentAI) · decade shipping AI-powered platforms

Building AI Teams with CrewAI

Have you ever wished you could assemble a team of AI experts to tackle your projects? Imagine having a researcher who never sleeps, an analyst who processes data in seconds, and a writer who crafts perfect content – all working together seamlessly. This isn't science fiction; it's possible today with CrewAI.

TL;DR

Production-ready starter template for building intelligent multi-agent teams with CrewAI. Covers agent roles, task orchestration, and the guardrails that turn a demo into something you can actually deploy — based on lessons from real AI agent systems.