MCP Server Tool Context Usage

Stop Polluting Context - Let Users Disable Individual MCP Tools

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

August 26, 2025 · 4 min · 833 words · Sam McLeod
Security middleware blocking potentially malicious content

MCP DevTools

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. ...

August 18, 2025 · 9 min · 1822 words · Sam McLeod

Delete Government-Linked Certificate Authorities in OSX

Inspired by http://zitseng.com/archives/7489 Source (Github) WARNINGS Do not run unless you understand what this is doing The CA system is broken by design - This is not a fix for that This is merely a band-aid for those interested or concerned about these root CAs Usage chmod +x delete_gov_roots.sh ./delete_gov_roots.sh You’ll be prompted for your password as root access is required to delete system-wide root certs. See Also http://convergence.io https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/certificate-patrol/ https://github.com/kirei/catt https://www.eff.org/observatory https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478418 http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202858 https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Certificate_and_Public_Key_Pinning

February 23, 2015 · 1 min · 75 words · Sam McLeod