And learned that sometimes the simplest solution wins
Claude MCP couldn't find our OAuth endpoints because we hid them at:
When Claude was looking at:
One rewrite rule later... we're back in business.
"Here lies Claude Skills (2024-2025)"
Vercel's research revealed a painful truth about their fancy Skills system:
The agent had documentation available and just... didn't use it.
Turns out making the AI decide to ask for help is harder than just... giving it the help.
Drop a markdown file in your repo. That's it. That's the whole feature.
Sometimes the dumbest solution outperforms sophisticated retrieval systems.
1. Put things where they're expected (.well-known at the root)
2. Passive context beats active retrieval
3. If your agent needs to decide to use help, it probably won't
4. 40KB of bloated docs â 8KB of pure efficiency