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I posted in July that once agents get everywhere, subscription skills would probably show up. Felt speculative at the time. Then Salesforce did it in September: they put 37 sales skills inside Claude, and every time a skill successfully calls Salesforce, that's one interaction. Salesforce says they're not charging for those interactions right now. Free today. Paying later, apparently.
Most desktop apps in this space are dropping the coding part and turning into general office tools. Command Code's desktop is more of a coding IDE. Classic chat pane, plus live agent activity so you can see which files it read and which commands it ran. Built-in browser and Design mode: click an element on the page and hand it to the agent to change. It ships with taste, a coding style that keeps learning your habits, and it picks up skills and MCPs globally on its own. Right now taste is the only thing here that stands out, and memory can do the same job just as well. 🔗 https://commandcode.ai/desktop
Won't refund the subscription either. I'm half convinced the appeal email is itself phishing, because I'm pretty sure they log the IP. DHH came to Shenzhen recently and showed how he uses Claude Code over there. That's the safest way now, honestly: run Claude Code on an overseas machine, connect through Tailscale, never use it locally. So I need to rent an overseas box with a residential IP, and register and log into Claude there.
Until late September it was the usual setup: parked in front of my laptop, terminal open, bossing pi around, fanning out subagents, then eyeballing diffs myself and filing the PR. Glued to the chair all day, every day. Late September I moved the whole thing to my phone, Hermes runs the show, pi takes the orders. My back is very grateful. Three weeks in, still no regrets. Stack: Hermes on flagship brains (gpt-6-astra / opus-5.5), pi on mid-tier (ds-v4.1-flash / sonnet / terra) with as few plugins as possible, the two talking over a2a. Hermes reads the issues, slices them into small tasks, spins up a worktree for each one, and dispatches a pi into it. When a pi finishes it pings Hermes, who decides: ship the PR or bounce it back for rework. I get back from a full day of being a tourist, or just wake up, and a dozen PRs are sitting there done. Pretty sweet. The catch is how black-box the whole thing is. My emotional arc has been a rerun of early vibe coding, except back then I at least read the diffs. Now even that goes to a flagship model. Boxes all the way down. If you don't have data anxiety, grok-bot and chatgpt-dot basically ship this out of the box, grok-cli and codex built in, native agent-to-agent comms. Downside: your code lives on their servers, everything's moderated, and one ban takes it all with it.
