Putting Claude Code inside someone else’s production codebase — without breaking it.
A working pattern from SciStories: how a figma-to-wordpress skill with cooperating agents ships a real WordPress theme — not a demo. What broke, what we kept, and the guardrails that earned their keep.
Nuuk has run inventory, purchasing, and accounting for construction and real-estate companies since 2017. Now an LLM can query it through a Spring AI sidecar. Notes on schema discipline, tool naming, and refusing to make the model invent fields.
Reading along with Chip Huyen. Where my regulated-software instincts agree with her, where they push back, and the eval harness I’m porting into AROD this quarter.
A SHA-256 chain of vet records that survives offline writes, conflicting clocks, and one stubborn clinic with a 2014 laptop. Build log + the migrations that hurt.
If a tax authority can reject your invoice for a missing field at 03:14 on a Sunday, you learn to write very, very precise specifications. Some of that transfers.
nuuk-ai v0.1 Spring AI · OAuth2 behind the ERP’s own auth