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Last Friday, while cross-debugging a payment refactoring branch, I had Cursor open on my left monitor for frontend reviews and Claude Code running in my terminal on the right. To let both AI assistant
There's a pattern I keep reaching for whenever an agent's context gets crowded, and it took me too long to notice it applies in two places at once. The pattern is small: keep names resident, fetch bod
If you run an AI agent wired to MCP servers, there's a handshake happening before every single reply — and you've never seen the invoice. This post is that invoice, itemized, plus the exact engineerin
MCP Tool Discovery Ate 3,384 Tokens per Turn. I Got It Down to 816. Every time your AI Agent or coding assistant (like Claude Code or Cursor) connects to your infrastructure stack, it pays a silent "e
Last week I did something a little ridiculous: I audited my own MCP traffic the way an accountant audits expense reports. Not to catch a bug — to find out where the money goes. My agent was burning to
Every time you open a new session, your AI client re-bills you for the same tool manifest. I never noticed â until I counted. On a config with 255 tools across 50 servers, the raw JSON tool list is
Run this and watch what happens: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/activeing123/mcptoon/main/install.ps1 | iex (Windows form; macOS and Linux have their own one-liner.) That command does n
Count the AI agents on your machine. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cline. Now count their config files. Same number, five different formats, and every one of them needs a hand edit whenever
When you buy a new lamp, you plug it into the wall. You do not call an electrician, you do not open the walls, and you do not rewire the house. The socket was built once, and everything you own just w
