| ▲ | anamexis 6 hours ago |
| You could use a CLI frontend for LSP, e.g. https://github.com/valentjn/lsp-cli But why would that be better than LLMs using the LSP with a dedicated tool rather than a shell command tool? |
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| ▲ | wild_egg 6 hours ago | parent [-] |
| CLIs don't use context space when unused. I find them almost universally preferable just because of that. Models get stupid after the first 80-100k tokens are used so keeping bloated tools out of the window unless completely necessary is a pretty hard requirement for effective AI use IMO. |
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| ▲ | anamexis 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well you need to use context space somehow, to tell Claude that the LSP CLI exists and how to use it. | | |
| ▲ | wild_egg 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | It takes a dozen tokens to put "when you need to do X, run `foo --help` and use it" in your CLAUDE.md. Plenty of MCPs and plugins and whatnot out there idly consuming 5-25k tokens 24/7. How is that the same? | | |
| ▲ | anamexis 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Because you can enable/disable MCPs and plugins just like you can choose not to include that context in CLAUDE.md . I do it all the time. I have several MCPs configured but only enable them on demand. |
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