Every post on this blog needs two images that do completely different jobs: a social card that has to earn a click in a feed, and an inline hero that opens the article. This post is about how the blog makes both — a typographic default that costs nothing, an opt-in artificial-intelligence (AI) cover that costs about four cents, and the little Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that wires an image model straight into Claude Code. The cover above was made by that exact pipeline.
Claude Code can be customized along a spectrum: at one end, plain-language instructions you hope the model follows; at the other, hooks and settings the harness enforces whether the model cooperates or not. This post maps that full surface and shows how to actually wire it up on a real project.
Most people install Claude Code, talk to it like a chatbot, and stop there. The difference between that and a genuine force multiplier is a small amount of configuration: a file that tells it your conventions, a couple of hooks that enforce quality automatically, and one skill that encodes a workflow you'd otherwise re-type every day.