snss10/DBeast: Expert-level PostgreSQL database analysis MCP server for AI assistants. (opens in new tab)馃搵MCPContent type: Code

I've been running Cursor and Claude Code with MCP for a while now, and one thing became obvious pretty quickly: Giving an agent a generic execute_sql tool is usually a terrible idea. The first problem is context explosion. If an agent needs to understand a database, it often starts by pulling huge schema dumps, table definitions, or query results directly into the conversation. Context gets consumed incredibly fast. The second problem is what I call the agent loop trap. The model writes a que...

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