Stop Pasting Your Whole Repo Into the Agent
Dumping every file into the prompt doesn't give the agent more signal — it buries the one file it actually needs. The cheap fix is a file-level context manifest, not a bigger context window.
Dumping every file into the prompt doesn't give the agent more signal — it buries the one file it actually needs. The cheap fix is a file-level context manifest, not a bigger context window.
Most MCP servers load everything eagerly, dump huge schemas into the system prompt, and make the agent pay for tools it will never call. The fix is boring: lazy, narrow, and spec-driven.