Subagents, Commands and Skills Are Converging (opens in new tab)

Claude Code has been shipping at a blistering pace. But buried in the recent 2.1.x releases is a fundamental shift in how the tool thinks about extensibility. The changes to skills, slash commands, and subagents might look incremental, but they’re pointing toward something bigger: these three abstractions are merging into one. Let me explain what’s happening and where I think this is headed. The Three Abstractions (And Why They Exist) Claude Code currently has three different ways to extend i...