My Starship Prompt Revisited: Making Blocks Vanish Cleanly
A follow-up to my Starship setup: how I got the status and AI blocks to appear only when they matter, without leaving a powerline stub behind.
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Russ.Cloud — The personal blog of Russ McKendrick
Token Use: Coach Mode and a Week of Releases
A week after Token Use hit 1.0.0 by cutting features, it's on 1.2.2. Coach mode, a Rust port of Microsoft's AI-Engineering-Coach rules, full-text scrollback, an MCP server, and a 3D graph.
11 min read
A Catch-Up: terminal-svg and Token Use v1
Two projects worth writing about: terminal-svg, a new Rust tool for pixel-perfect terminal screenshots, and Token Use finally reaching v1
8 min read
Playing with Headroom: Compressing the Context Going to My AI Coding Agents
I spent a few days running Headroom, a local proxy that promises to cut the tokens your AI coding agent sends to the provider. The savings are real, but they're not where the dashboard first makes you think they are.
11 min read
codebase-memory-mcp: Giving Claude Code (and Codex) a Map
A short look at codebase-memory-mcp, an MCP server that indexes your codebase into a queryable knowledge graph so Claude Code or Codex can answer structural questions without grepping every file.
9 min read
Counting the Cost of Vibe Coding
A local-first dashboard for tracking AI coding tool spend across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and Gemini CLI - with a TUI, a desktop app, and zero API keys required.
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