Tag: anthropic-sdk

Use stdio for a local server one client launches, use Streamable HTTP for anything remote or multi-client, and do not build new HTTP+SSE servers -- that transport was deprecated in the 2025-03-26 MCP spec. Here is the decision, the wire-level differences, and the code for each.

Rule-based checks are your floor and they are non-negotiable; LLM-as-judge is the ceiling you add when code quality, not just correctness, is what you ship. Here is the decision, with cost, latency, and the SWE-bench gap that proves why.

Claude subagents give you orchestration-level parallelism out of the box: one agent spawns isolated sub-contexts that run concurrently. OpenAI Assistants never had that, and it shuts down August 26, 2026, so new parallel work belongs on the Responses API plus your own fan-out. Here is how the two models actually differ and which to reach for.

The cache read and write multipliers are identical on both models, so the break-even point is the same. What differs is the minimum cacheable prefix (1,024 vs 4,096 tokens), the per-token dollar savings, and a new Opus 4.7 tokenizer that counts up to 35% more tokens. With claude-sonnet-4-6 and claude-opus-4-7 pricing math.

Two ways to call Claude from C#: the official Anthropic .NET SDK directly, or the provider-neutral Microsoft.Extensions.AI IChatClient that wraps it. When each wins, what you lose at the abstraction boundary, and why it is not actually either/or. With claude-opus-4-8 and claude-sonnet-4-6 examples.

Use custom tool calling for one app you own end to end, MCP for any integration you want reused across Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT, and OpenAPI plugins only as a bridge when you already have a spec. MCP is the cross-client standard in 2026; plugins are legacy.

This banner is a pause, not a failure. It maps to the API's pause_turn stop reason (default 10 server-tool iterations). Click Continue, or in code re-send the assistant response. Full fix here.

Claude Desktop's claude_desktop_config.json only validates stdio servers. Drop a 'url' field in and it silently strips the entry, crashes on startup, or boots with zero tools. Use a custom connector for remote URLs and mcp-remote as a stdio bridge for local HTTP servers.

Aider is git-first by default. To edit files outside the repo, pass them on the command line, use /read for reference docs, drop --no-git for unversioned dirs, or symlink. Five working patterns with exact flags.

Five MCP servers can burn 55k tokens and wreck tool-selection accuracy before Claude does any work. How to fix it in Claude Code 2.1.x with ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH and alwaysLoad, on the raw API with the tool search tool and defer_loading, and on the MCP connector with mcp_toolset. Anchored to claude-opus-4-7, claude-sonnet-4-6, and the 20251119 tool search variants.