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← all postsMCP, CLI or hook - which tool when, and when MCP is overengineering
MCP is a tool, not a status. Each connector is maintenance, risk and attack surface. Criteria for when MCP pays off, when CLI / slash command / hook is better, a decision tree, and the CLI → MCP migration path.
Context7 - the MCP that gives your model up-to-date docs instead of six-month-old knowledge
How one small MCP solves the biggest pain of working with LLMs on code: stale library knowledge. Setup, real-world cases, limitations.
Caveman - the plugin that cuts output tokens by 75% (and where it breaks)
How a Claude Code plugin that makes the model talk like a caveman changed my token bill - and which tasks it actually fits, which ones it quietly ruins.