MCP + Context: engineering for the context — hard lessons learned
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I have built my own orchestration framework because most of what I’ve seen was too complex or tried to lock you into creating workflows a certain way. I wanted something very simple and yet maximally flexible. I’m not going into details here on the framework — that’s another blog post — but I will in some cases explain why I could do what I did thanks to the flexibility of the framework, which is a dynamic DAG, can do call-backs, and uses functions and MCP servers. I will also not explain in detail what I’m doing with my current workflow, other than to say I was looking for a way to bypass large language models…
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