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AI & Machine Learning

Making a repo agent-friendly: CLAUDE.md, memory files, hooks and MCP config

John Nguyen · Jan 19, 2026 · 7 min read

AI coding agents kept running the wrong test command, editing generated files and reading our .env. The fix was repo setup, not better prompts: a short instruction file, deterministic commands, permission rules, formatting hooks and a checked-in MCP config.

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AI & Machine Learning

Building a local MCP server in Python and testing it end to end

John Nguyen · Dec 9, 2025 · 9 min read

A step-by-step build of a small Model Context Protocol server in Python with tools, resources and prompts, then how we test it three ways: the MCP Inspector, a scripted client in pytest and a real AI client, before anyone on the team relies on it.