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  • 1 hr ago

    DesktopCommanderMCP: your agent's bash forgets. This one keeps the session open.

    Every agent's Bash tool spawns a fresh subprocess per call. Open a psql shell, run a query, write a follow-up — the connection is gone, the transaction is gone, the REPL state is gone. DesktopCommanderMCP is the only mainstream MCP that holds a real interactive session across tool calls. That changes what an agent can do.

    DC
  • 1 day ago

    markdownify-mcp: your agent's context window is mostly HTML scaffolding

    In 2026, the under-discussed cost in an agent stack is the HTML chrome the model has to parse before it reaches anything worth reading. Cloudflare measured an 80% token reduction converting HTML to Markdown. markdownify-mcp does that at the host edge, for PDFs, YouTube, audio, and slides too.

    MD

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