Here's an exercise to practice creating small custom commands or skills.

Create two commands: /working and /finished. These commands should make HTTP requests to URLs at presentations.industrial-linguistics.com/v1/working.cgi/YOUR_NAME and presentations.industrial-linguistics.com/v1/finished.cgi/YOUR_NAME.

You can still create these at the project level in .claude/commands/ or in your personal tooling at ~/.claude/commands/. For a more modern version, put the same workflow into a small skill under .claude/skills/.

These simple status workflows are good examples of how Claude Code can integrate with external systems in your organization.