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Tools: Code Is All You Need

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313 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 10:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mritchie712 ◴[03 Jul 25 12:31 UTC] No.44454328[source]▶
> try completing a GitHub task with the GitHub MCP, then repeat it with the gh CLI tool. You'll almost certainly find the latter uses context far more efficiently and you get to your intended results quicker.

This is spot on. I have a "devops" folder with a CLAUDE.md with bash commands for common tasks (e.g. find prod / staging logs with this integration ID).

When I complete a novel task (e.g. count all the rows that were synced from stripe to duckdb) I tell Claude to update CLAUDE.md with the example. The next time I ask a similar question, Claude one-shots it.

This is the first few lines of the CLAUDE.md

    This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

    ## Purpose
    This devops folder is dedicated to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) operations, focusing on:
    - Google Cloud Composer (Airflow) DAG management and monitoring
    - Google Cloud Logging queries and analysis
    - Kubernetes cluster management (GKE)
    - Cloud Run service debugging

    ## Common DevOps Commands

    ### Google Cloud Composer
    ```bash
    # View Composer environment details
    gcloud composer environments describe meltano --location us-central1 --project definite-some-id

    # List DAGs in the environment
    gcloud composer environments storage dags list --environment meltano --location us-central1 --project definite-some-id

    # View DAG runs
    gcloud composer environments run meltano --location us-central1 dags list

    # Check Airflow logs
    gcloud logging read 'resource.type="cloud_composer_environment" AND resource.labels.environment_name="meltano"' --project definite-some-id --limit 50
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jayd16 ◴[03 Jul 25 14:30 UTC] No.44455438[source]▶
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills sometimes. You have a file with a set of snippets and you prefer to ask the AI to hopefully run them instead of just running it yourself?
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1. theshrike79 ◴[05 Jul 25 21:19 UTC] No.44475635[source]▶
The AI will run whatever command it figures out might work, which might be wasteful and taint the context with useless crap.

But when you give it tools for retrieving all client+server logs combined (for a web application), it can use it and just get what it needs as simply as possible.

Or it'll start finding a function by digging around code files with grep, if you provide a tool that just lists all functions, their parameters and locations, it'll find the exact spot in one go.