Lab Notes
It's a Function, in a Loop, in a Loop
A language model has no memory and runs nothing. Streaming text, a chat that follows the thread, an agent that reads your files — all of it is the same stateless function call, wrapped in loops somebody else wrote.
aillmagentsfundamentals
The Decode Loop and the MCP Handoff
Overview of what runs between a prompt and a tool result in an LLM system.
Claude Code lives in two folders
Claude Code's entire configuration layer is two folders of plain text files. Here's what goes in each one and how to actually use them.