Title: Claude Code, MCP, and AI-Paired Development | Bryce Watson
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Links:
| Bryce Watson | https://brycewatson.com/ |
| work with me | https://brycewatson.com/work |
| writing | https://brycewatson.com/blog |
| projects | https://brycewatson.com/projects |
| log | https://brycewatson.com/weekly-report |
| goals | https://brycewatson.com/goals |
| art | https://brycewatson.com/art |
| reading | https://brycewatson.com/reading |
| about | https://brycewatson.com/about |
| Claude Code | https://claude.com/product/claude-code |
| MCP | https://modelcontextprotocol.io |
| See how I work with clients → | https://brycewatson.com/work |
| weekly work log | https://brycewatson.com/weekly-report |
| goals | https://brycewatson.com/goals |
| See all tiers & details | https://brycewatson.com/work |
| Idea Review Free A one-pager on whether the idea is worth building. | https://brycewatson.com/work |
| Review & Spec $2,500 A written, buildable spec your team can act on. | https://brycewatson.com/work |
| Review & Build / Build From $5,000 / From $2,000 You bring a spec or a prototype; I ship it against agreed acceptance criteria. | https://brycewatson.com/work |
| Akaya | https://akayatech.com/ |
| Oregon AI Accelerator | https://oregonaiaccelerator.com/ |
| MCP API Bridge | https://brycewatson.com/projects/mcp-api-bridge |
| source on GitHub | https://github.com/BryceEWatson/mcp-api-bridge |
| #32561 | https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/32561 |
| #32213 | https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/32213 |
| Chip Huyen's AI Engineering, Applied: Grading My Production Systems Against the Book New Every idea in Chip Huyen's AI Engineering, graded against my production LLM systems, plus where the book and current Anthropic guidance genuinely pull apart. | https://brycewatson.com/blog/30-ai-engineering-applied |
| See all posts | https://brycewatson.com/blog |
| Chip Huyen's AI Engineering, Applied: Grading My Production Systems Against the Book Every idea in Chip Huyen's AI Engineering, graded against my production LLM systems, plus where the book and current Anthropic guidance genuinely pull apart. | https://brycewatson.com/blog/30-ai-engineering-applied |
| Command's LLM wiki: a self-updating memory layer that has to prove what it writes I built Karpathy's LLM wiki pattern into Command, my Claude Code operator: 134 provenance-tagged pages, a grep gate that blocks fabricated quotes, a nightly digest pipeline that was reset after a cheap model wrote a wrong verdict into it, and a human-gated publish wall. | https://brycewatson.com/blog/29-command-llm-wiki |
| Claude Code deletes your old session logs after 30 days by default The cleanupPeriodDays default is 30 days, so Claude Code deletes session transcripts older than that at startup. Set it higher in ~/.claude/settings.json to stop the deletions. What the setting covers, what was already gone on my machine, and why raising it can't recover the past. | https://brycewatson.com/blog/28-claude-code-deletes-old-logs |
| See all projects | https://brycewatson.com/projects |
| Command Active An autonomous Claude Code operator for 65 local projects. A free deterministic watcher senses the fleet, an approval-gated session acts, and every fix carries a success criterion committed to git before it runs. | https://brycewatson.com/projects/command |
| The design decisions → | https://brycewatson.com/blog/26-building-command-operator |
| ShopForge Active Production AI agent that runs an Etsy shop end-to-end: from image generation to published listing to performance-based learning. 34 skills, three-tier memory; evolved from ShopSmith OS and live since early 2026. | https://brycewatson.com/projects/shopforge |
| Work With Me | https://brycewatson.com/work |
| github | https://github.com/BryceEWatson |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryceewatson |
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