Thariq Shihipar is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic working on Claude Code, where he built the "ask user question" (AskUserQuestion) tool and writes the team's "Lessons from building Claude Code" series on tool design, prompt caching, skills, and dynamic workflows. He is best known for popularizing HTML over Markdown as a richer output format for human-AI collaboration. His sessions offer practitioners first-hand insight into how Claude Code is designed and used internally.

Recent talks (3)

Why this Claude Code engineer uses HTML files as AI specs | Thariq Shihipar (Anthropic)How I AI (Lenny's Newsletter), filmed at Code with Claude, San Francisco · May 2026Figma x Claude Code Live: Roundtrip workflows with Figma MCPFigma x Claude Code Livestream · Mar 2026Building Claude Code at Anthropic (Vibe Code Camp)Vibe Code Camp (Every.to) · Jan 2026

Public activity researched automatically · as of Jun 2026