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Taming MCPs, Skills, and Agent Chaos with ToolHive

DEV Community·Ryan Swift·about 1 month ago
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I use a lot of AI coding tools: OpenCode, Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Pi, Zed, GitHub Copilot, and probably others too. I'm having a ton of fun vibe coding and learning each of these systems. But ultimately, I need to understand these tools because my job is helping developers make sense of this stuff. I'm lucky to have a (reasonably) unlimited AI budget. But managing what feels like 30 different tools has become a pain. Every tool wants its own config, MCP setup, skills folder, auth, etc. Trying every AI dev tool has stopped feeling like product research and started feeling like I'm torturing a tiny fleet of confused robots. A dream of consistency I am painfully organized at times. My sprawling collection of agents feels out of hand. It is not strictly difficult to reconfigure an MCP server or drop in a skill I need, but I find myself wanting a more consistent experience across every tool. If I (read: my agents) create a skill, I do not want to copy it into six different folders.…

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