Lazy Context: Why Retrieval Beats Compression
Headroom went from zero to 40k GitHub stars by attacking agentic token bloat. The durable idea isn't the tool - it's treating context compression as a retrieval problem.
Read more →MiniMax M3: Frontier Coding at a Tenth of the Price
MiniMax shipped M3 on June 1: frontier coding claims, 1M-token context, native multimodality, and pricing that undercuts Opus 4.7 by 10-40x. It's already on Ollama Cloud and OpenRouter, so you can point Claude Code at it today.
Read more →The Viral CLAUDE.md and Mine
A community file distilling Karpathy's coding-agent observations hit 60K stars on four principles. I opened my own CLAUDE.md to compare. I'd independently written two of them. The two I hadn't are the ones that matter most.
Read more →Your AGENTS.md is a Liability
Frontier models top out at 68% compliance with 500 instructions. Every rule you add makes every other rule less likely to be followed. The research explains why.
Read more →The Context Wars: Why Your Browser Tools Are Bleeding Tokens
Playwright MCP's 26 tools are killing your context window. Vercel's agent-browser shows a better way: fewer tools, smarter snapshots, 93% less overhead.
Read more →Claude Code's Hidden MCP Flag: 32k Tokens Back
ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_MCP_CLI eliminates MCP tool schema overhead entirely. Undocumented, untested in the wild, but it works. Here's what I found.
Read more →12 Factor Agents: Principles for AI That Actually Work
HumanLayer's 12-factor agents codifies what works in production AI: own your context, keep agents small, stay out of the dumb zone.
Read more →Opus 4.5 and Tool Search: The Native Fix for MCP Context Bloat
Claude's new model ships with defer_loading for tools. The MCP isolation patterns I built are now (mostly) obsolete.
Read more →Expressing MCP Tools as Code APIs (96% Less Context)
From Chrome DevTools experiment to universal MCP wrapper: progressive discovery works with any server, Skills integration, and smart deduplication
Read more →Isolating MCP Context in Claude Code with Slash Commands
How to use slash commands to keep specialized MCP tools isolated from your main conversation context.
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