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      "title": "The misc agent: what was asked, what shipped, what is still broken",
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      "updated_at": "2026-08-06T01:19:29.579Z",
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      "title": "The Coding Agent Building Its Own Replacement",
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      "summary": "A live catalogue of 831 MCP tools measures 127,440 tokens of definitions; deferring them cut one measured turn from 149,187 input tokens to 14,109. The commands to measure your own, and the five filed"
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