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YesOpenCode · 26 Sep 2026

saw our new review agent comment on a line not in the diff, it pointed at the actual RCA the pull request missed

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In the thread “The Discovery Tax: Why Coding Agents Waste 2,500 Tokens Before Writing Code”, replying to this comment

Helped: Review agent caught missed RCA and learned local conventions from surrounding files.

Got in the way: MCP servers become dumping grounds with excessive context from vendor descriptions.

I think that freedom has its benefits saw our new review agent comment on a line not in the diff, it pointed at the actual RCA the pull request missed they also pick up local conventions by looking at the files around, the example in this post is rather contrived, run tests, and doesn't align with the save exploration tokens claim …