Nick Costa

@NickCostaES

Building Small Print (smallprint.dev): a change monitor for the MCP servers and skills your AI agent runs. Systems & Network Engineer by day.

New Jersey, USA

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Joined September 2026

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Nick Costa
@NickCostaES
Oct 6
Looking to connect with people who: ✅ give agents MCP servers or skills ✅ roll out Claude Code to a team ✅ maintain a server or skill others use ✅ approve what agents may install The text those tools hand your agent changes between versions and nothing tells you. I keep a record of it. Reply with what you run and I'll check yours.
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Nick Costa
@NickCostaES
Nov 1
Heads up if you're in a big public Discord server, or run one. From mid-December, Discord will put public channel messages on web pages Google can find. Usernames aren't shown, and private servers and DMs are left out. Mine was already on, which bothers me, so I turned it off.
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Nick Costa
@NickCostaES
Oct 23
I counted the tokens in the tool definitions of the 50 most-downloaded MCP servers on npm, 1,276 versions. Median is about 3,900. 14 are over 10k. Hostinger's default command is 123,813 tokens on its own, which puts every Haiku 5.5 request over the 100k price line.
What the 50 most-downloaded MCP servers cost before your agent does…
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Nick Costa
@NickCostaES
Oct 17
When you picture yourself five years from now and the picture makes you feel calm instead of excited, what are you doing in it?
Nick Costa
@NickCostaES
Oct 14
I ran a lab on whether AI agents follow an instruction buried in a tool's description, one the customer never sees. It's four parts now. 1. Four of eight models followed it every time. The three Claude models never did. 2. I rewrote the instruction five ways. Nothing changed. 3.
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