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Stop letting your AI agent read whole files: a code map for Claude Code, Cursor and MCP

When an AI coding agent needs to change one method, it usually reads the whole file first. Then the next file. Then it greps, and reads a few more. Most of those tokens are spent on finding the way , not on the task. I built callgraph to give the agent a map instead: the structure of a file, every…

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  1. 2026-11-10 10:16 · DEV Community — AI
    Stop letting your AI agent read whole files: a code map for Claude Code, Cursor and MCP

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