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Notes from the build.

Long-form writing about shipping a multi-provider, cost-aware MCP plugin. The mistakes are real, the engineering is verifiable in the git log, and the post-mortems are written for the next time someone hits the same wall.

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2026-04-21 · post-mortem · by Sherif Butt · 12 min read

Seven hotfixes to ship a Claude Code plugin.

v0.7.0 set out to add an install-time prompt for API keys. Eight releases later, we deleted the feature. The chain of silent failures that got us there — and why "revert" is a feature.

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2026-04-30 · engineering · by Sherif Butt · 9 min read

The 3,700 bytes that broke our CI for two weeks.

Why we ripped esbuild out of the build pipeline and replaced it with plain tsc. A story about platform-specific output, deterministic builds, and dist diffs you can't see with your eyes.

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