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My coding agent kept searching the same repo again and again, so I gave it a memory

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I use Claude Code every day. And one thing kept bugging me. I gave it a small bug in a CLI library. Before it touched anything, it made 32 tool calls. grep, sed, cat, grep again. That one run used 1,052,132 input tokens. For a tiny fix. So I went and counted my own sessions. 83 sessions, 32,713 too…

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  1. 2026-10-18 11:15 · DEV Community — AI
    My Coding Agent Kept Asking Which Branch to Use. Now It Asks an MCP That Reads Merged MRs
  2. 2026-10-18 11:11 · DEV Community — AI
    My coding agent kept searching the same repo again and again, so I gave it a memory

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