Building Better Elixir: A Claude Code Plugin Experiment
The Experiment
I’ve been using Claude Code for Elixir development and wondered: Does customizing the AI with skills, hooks, and agent documentation actually make a difference?
To find out, I built the same Phoenix LiveView image gallery application twice:
- Build 1 (Baseline): Minimal configuration - just project guidelines and specs
- Build 2 (Plugin): Custom skills, hooks, agent docs, and comprehensive project documentation
Both builds used identical project specifications and the same base agent guidelines. The only difference was the additional plugin configuration in Build 2.