Context as a control surface: steering agentic runs via MCP over stdio
mostly_deterministic · reddit · 2026-09-10
Building on a prior pattern that used local MCP over stdio as a seam for agentic applications, the author found a surprisingly useful extension: letting a conversational or coding harness pass context into a bounded MCP-backed agentic operation, then using that context to steer subsequent runs — effectively turning context into a control surface between the two harnesses. Full write-up linked, with community feedback requested.
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