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One environment variable, four clients, one silent miss Last week I added an environment variable to one of my MCP servers — API_BASE, pointed at an internal host. Added it in Claude Code. Worked. Add
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
