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If you’re building MCP servers, you should be adding the ability to disable individual tools.

MCP DevTools - The one tool that replaced the 10-15 odd NodeJS/Python/Rust MCP servers I had running at any given to for agentic coding tools with a single server that provides tools I consider useful for agents when coding. The Problem The MCP ecosystem has grown rapidly, but I found myself managing many separate servers, each often running multiple times for every MCP client I had running, not to mention the ever growing memory and CPU consumption of the many NodeJS or Python processes. ...

Square Peg hosted event on June 20, 2025 where I demonstrated a basic version of my daily Agentic Coding workflow using Cline and MCP tools. What does it take to write enterprise-grade code in the AI-native era? Join Square Peg investors James Tynan and Grace Dalla-Bona for a live demo and Q&A session with three leading AI-native developers - Grant Gurvis, Listiarso Wastuargo, and Sam McLeod - and get a behind-the-curtain look at the workflows that enable them to ship faster, smarter, and cleaner code using tools like Cursor, Cline, and smolagents. ...

Picture this: A business leader overhears their engineering team discussing “vibe coding” and immediately imagines developers throwing prompts at ChatGPT until something works, shipping whatever emerges to production. The term alone—“vibe coding”—conjures images of seat-of-the-pants development that would make any CTO break out in a cold sweat. This misunderstanding is creating a real problem. Whilst vibe coding represents genuine creative exploration that has its place, the unfortunate terminology is causing some business leaders to conflate all AI-assisted / accelerated development with haphazard experimentation. I fear that engineers using sophisticated AI coding agents be it with advanced agentic coding tools like Cline to deliver production-quality solutions are finding their approaches questioned or dismissed entirely. ...

I follow a simple, yet effective flow for agentic coding that helps me to efficiently develop software using AI coding agents while keeping them on track, focused on the task at hand and ensuring they have access to the right tools and information. The flow is simple: Setup -> Plan -> Act -> Review and Iterate. Setup - Ensuring the effective agent rules and tools are enabled.s. Plan - Building a detailed plan based on your goals, requirements and ideation with the coding agent. Act - Perform the development tasks, in phases. Review and Iterate - Review the work, updating the plan and iterating as required. 🕵 Setup Ensure any directories or files you don’t want Cline to read are excluded by adding them to a .clineignore file in the root of your project. 🛠️ Tools The effective use of tools is critical to the success and cost effectiveness of agentic coding. The MCP Servers (tools) I frequently use are available here: sammcj/agentic-coding#mcp-servers ...

Prompt caching is a feature that Anthropic first offered on their API in 2024. It adds a cache for the tokens used Why it matters Without prompt caching every token in and out of the API must be processed and paid for in full. This is bad for your wallet, bad for the LLM hosting providers bottom line and bad for the environment. This is especially important when it comes to Agentic coding, where there are a lot of tokens in/out and important - a lot of token reuse, which makes it a perfect use case for prompt caching. ...

Apologies for the video quality, Google Meet/Hangouts records in very low resolution and bitrate. Links mentioned in the video: Cline Roo Code (Cline fork with some experimental features) MCP https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction The package-version MCP server I created: https://github.com/sammcj/mcp-package-version https://smithery.ai (index of MCP servers) https://mcp.so(index of MCP servers) https://glama.ai/mcp/servers (index of MCP servers)