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    If you had to access RavenDb 3.5 over REST API and were pondering how to so using a supplied api key and oauth, then this page is very helpful indeed.

    ravendb • 2025-10-27 • 2:15pm

    Effective context engineering for AI agents

    good context engineering means finding the smallest possible set of high-signal tokens that maximize the likelihood of some desired outcome

    ai, anthropic, prompting • 2025-10-01 • 10:45pm

    Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 claiming it’s

    the best coding model in the world.

    API price remains the same as earlier versions at

    $3/$15 per million tokens.

    Also, ccusage deprecates blocks --live as the official way to track claude usage is via claude.ai/settings/usage.

    ai, claude, anthropic, model • 2025-09-30 • 7:45am

    Every team is at a different stage of collaboration and so it’s difficult to find a team charter template that fits all teams - I like this atlassian one even if just for the Team Preferences and Communication Channels sections.

    ways-of-working, collaboration • 2025-09-26 • 11:14am

    Microsoft announces auto-model selection for VS Code that prioritizes Claude Sonnet 4 over GPT-5 for paid users

    ai, code-assist, microsoft, vscode, anthropic, moat • 2025-09-18 • 7:25pm

    Use ccusage to track your live, daily, and monthly claude code token and dollar usage. In the case of subscription plans it shows you how much you would have paid were you using API. Also estimates your current block usage which you can use to predict whether you’re going to get rate limited at any given time.

    claude, tools • 2025-06-25 • 9:40am

    Claude code supports remote MCP servers.

    
        
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    claude mcp add --transport http github https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer <GITHUB_PAT>"
    claude, ai • 2025-06-19 • 2:12pm

    How we built our multi-agent research system speaks to Anthropic’s multi-agent build experiences.

    We found that a multi-agent system with Claude Opus 4 as the lead agent and Claude Sonnet 4 subagents outperformed single-agent Claude Opus 4 by 90.2% on our internal research eval

    However these architectures burn through tokens fast:

    In our data, agents typically use about 4× more tokens than chat interactions, and multi-agent systems use about 15× more tokens than chats.

    Cognition goes further in Don’t Build Multi-Agents

    In some cases, libraries such as swarm by OpenAI and autogen by Microsoft actively push concepts which I believe to be the wrong way of building agents.

    anthropic, ai, cognition, patterns • 2025-06-19 • 8:27am

    Apple released container

    a tool that you can use to create and run Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on your Mac. It’s written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.

    After installing and starting the service via container system start the cli gives you a similar experience to docker. Unfortunately in my case after resolving dated sources and switching dependencies to arm64 I discovered my Dockerfile candidate still had an x86 binary so I’ll need to find another candidate to test any performance improvements.

    docker, apple • 2025-06-11 • 7:13am

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