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YesClaude, GPT · 14 Oct 2025

I was completely fucking unable to do this via publicly-available MCP servers in the VSCode agent mode

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In the thread “Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)”, replying to this comment

Helped: Iterating on elisp in buffer and using debugging tricks.

Got in the way: Publicly-available MCP servers in VSCode agent mode.

… It basically wrote tools for itself to hook into the emacs LSP package and look up C++ code (in our codebase, which is, uh, challenging for FOSS language servers) from gptel. I was completely fucking unable to do this via publicly-available MCP servers in the VSCode agent mode. In general I have been able to resolve a bunch of niggling config issues that I had just been ignoring in favor of doing Actual Work. …