Claude Code told me what tools it needs to work faster

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Post by chtefi » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 9:37 PM UTC

Claude Code told me what tools it needs to work faster
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Re: Claude Code told me what tools it needs to work faster

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Post by sarthakaggarwal » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

Interesting - I've been digging into Claude Code's behavior patterns too, but from the cost side. The variance in how many API calls a task takes is wild. A simple refactoring can be 3 calls or 30 depending on codebase state. Curious what tools it suggested — did any of them relate to reducing unnecessary loops?

Re: Claude Code told me what tools it needs to work faster

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Post by jahala » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

I made tilth much for the same reasons. Its MIT licence, open source and saves you 30% token use (benchmarked)

https://github.com/jahala/tilth

Re: Claude Code told me what tools it needs to work faster

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Post by touristtam » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 5:28 AM UTC

Interesting about the `semgrep` tool; I've never heard of it before.

The strange thing (or not) is that I have got completely different set of recommendations coming from claude.

Also; funny thing is I use mise a lot more than brew and claude could pick up on that.

Re: Claude Code told me what tools it needs to work faster

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Post by ZeroGravitas » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 8:38 AM UTC

I'm never sure whether to believe llms about themselves.

Anthropic create developer containers with a selection of tools installed. Is that a better guide? Some of the config seems aimed at human developers but if claude likes the tools why aren't they in this list?

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/.devcont...