Feeding Cursor a Whole OpenAPI Spec: Context Bloat vs Targeted Tools
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Quick answer: Pasting a large OpenAPI document into an AI editor does not give the model better API knowledge; it burns the context window on schemas the current task never touches, which degrades the quality of the actual change. The better approach is to give the agent targeted, spec-derived tool…
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- 2026-10-30 07:11 · DEV Community — AI
Feeding Cursor a Whole OpenAPI Spec: Context Bloat vs Targeted Tools