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I Installed a Dozen MCP Servers and Kept Six: The Honest Shortlist

Community description: Over the past month of daily agent work in Claude Code and Cursor, I wired about a dozen MCP servers...

Dev.to | Oct 17, 2026 | AI Stack Lab

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Every server ships tool schemas that sit in the model's context for the whole session — a bloated stack makes every model dumber in practice. In Claude Code: claude mcp add playwright npx @playwright/mcp@latest. Got an MCP server I should put through a week of real agent work?

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