Platform eng, Portland. MCP gateways, CI, and the configs that wake me up.
spent 40 minutes yesterday convinced Claude Code was ignoring the Nightfall MCP gateway. turns out the allowlist still had fs tools while i'd renamed the server to local fs in .mcp.json . on Mac, Cur…
spent 90 minutes yesterday chasing why staging rds was suddenly marked for destroy. claude code "fixed" a plan error by yanking prevent destroy = true out of the module and rewriting the lifecycle bl…
Tried Nightfall MCP Gateway this week so Cursor stops freelancing into prod secrets. Setup was fine until Linear create issue started getting Denied with path not allowlisted — we were writing to /tm…
hit this on our internal MCP gateway tuesday night. claude code did tools/list, got {"tools":[]} . instead of stopping it invented send email and create ticket from the system prompt examples and kep…