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you really don't need any of this crap. you just need Claude Code and CLAUDE.MD in directories where you need to direct it. complicated AI set ups are mid curve
It seems to mostly ignore Claude.md
Combined with a good AGENTS.md, it seems to be working really well.
The past few weeks I've been experimenting with using less context and less memory and it's been going really well. Where before I'd try to do a bunch of fairly related things in a single session, experimenting with compacting more or less frequently, now I'm clearing my context or exiting and restarting claude and codex. It seems to help it focus on the task at hand, hasn't tended to go off into the weeds as much, a…
Is anyone else just completely overwhelmed with the number of things you _need_ for claude code? Agents, sub agents, skills, claud.md, agents.md, rules, hooks, etc. We use Cursor where I work and I find it a good medium for still being in control and knowing what is happening with all of the changes being reviewed in an IDE. Claude feels more like a black box, and one with so many options that it's just overwhelming,…
I don't understand the use case. I think if you don't use agents, and skills currently effectively, then perhaps this is useful. If you're using them though, we no longer have the problem of Claude forgetting things.
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I refuse to learn all the complicated configuration because none of it will matter when they drop the next model. Things that need special settings now won’t in the future and vice versa. It’s not worth investing a bunch of time into learning features and prompting tricks that will be obsoleted soon
I wish that were true. Models don't feel like they've really had massive leaps. They do get better, but not enough to change any of the configuration I have. But you are correct, there is a real possibility that the time invested with be obsolete at some point. For sure the work towards MCPs are basically obsolete via skills. These things happen.
how would that be a "skill"? just wrap the mcp in a cli?
fwiw this may be a skill issue, pun intended, but i can't seem to get claude to trigger skills, whereas it reaches for mcps more... i wonder if im missing something. I'm plenty productive in claude though.
I'm not sure how many HN users frequent other places related to agentic coding like the subreddits of particular providers, but this has got to be the 1000th "ultimate memory system"/break-free-of-the-context-limit-tyranny! project I've seen, and like all other similar projects there's never any evidence or even attempt at measuring any metric of performance improved by it. Of course it's hard to measure such a thing…