Daniel Avila builds AI developer tools, including the Claude Code Templates catalog and command-line installer. His work connects language models with existing development environments, from the CodeGPT editor assistant to reusable agents, commands, hooks, and skills.[1][3][4]
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X Background
Duoc UC identifies Avila as an informatics engineer trained there. His conference biography adds specialization in IT Management Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His GitHub profile links Spanish-language LangChain examples, earlier document and YouTube question-answering projects, and writing about AI developer workflows.[1][4][5]
Career
Duoc UC’s 2023 account describes Avila building CodeGPT after using ChatGPT in work on his gym-management startup, BoxMagic. The extension connected multiple model providers to an editor, and he released it publicly. A 2025 conference biography identifies him as CodeGPT co-founder and describes its later use of knowledge graphs to represent relationships within a codebase. His current portfolio identifies him as an AI Engineer at Hedgineer.io.[2][4][5]
Contributions
A catalog for configuring an agent
Claude Code Templates provides an installer and browser catalog for agents, commands, settings, hooks, MCP integrations, and skills. Developers select individual components instead of starting each configuration from scratch. The catalog credits Anthropic and community authors for included material; Avila maintains its catalog and tooling.[3]
Seeing the configuration in use
The project includes session analytics, a conversation monitor, installation diagnostics, and a plugin dashboard. These address what is installed, what a session is doing, and whether the environment is configured as intended. Its installer connects discovering a component with adding it to a working setup.[3]
Tools, writing & talks
Tools
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Claude Code Templates
github.comA component catalog, installer, and monitoring toolkit for Claude Code configurations.
Browse a component’s actual instructions before installing it. The README explains selecting individual components and running diagnostics; use requires a local Node environment and a compatible Claude Code setup.
Repository owner and maintainer; included third-party material separately credited.[3]Original source
Writing, research & talks
- CodeGPT originduoc.cl
A university account of how Avila’s editor integration developed into CodeGPT.
Creator interviewed by his institution.[4]