/publish replaced a 40-line shell script and 6 manual steps
/sync keeps 3 platforms aligned from one source file
/qa catches broken links and word-count fails before publish
Command design lesson: narrow inputs, one job, loud failures
I run a solo studio. There is no second person to catch my mistakes, so I built five Claude Code slash commands to be the second person. They replaced about 200 lines of fragile glue code and roughly 30 minutes of manual checking per article. Here is what each one does, what it replaced, and what I learned about designing commands that actually get used.
