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Interesting, I experienced a lot of context pressure earlier. Might help that they're better at tool calling now so they don't clog up the context with errors as much, plus I was trying to make it work for commander which is ~4x the tokens per turn cycle and games last forever

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(In retrospect my compaction algorithm was extremely bad but that's what I was trying to do)

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Do you do compaction at 1M or just assume games don't go that long?

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Yeah, probably some assumptions got baked in there from when I was testing with the models that were cheap in early 2026 - most of them couldn't do 1M context. Surprised by 20%, though - I was usually seeing 60%+, at least mage-bench.com/internals/?m... (well, assuming my numbers were correct)

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Internals | mage-bench

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FWIW I think the "expose a reasonably clean XMage MCP server" and "build scaffolding to set up and record multiplayer games" stuff turned out more valuable than the actual harness where the LLM runs - I suspect that part could be replaced with "connect Claude Code to the mcp" and it'd work better

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Gregor Stocks @gregorstocks.com · 21/05/2026

Interesting - I thought I was already doing a pretty good job with the caching (certainly compared to my earlier versions), what wins were you able to find?

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sadly, the Kjeldoran military is very litigious so readers in Great Britain will not be able to access all of it

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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Looks like it's on the Wayback Machine, added to the backlog!

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Reposted by Gregor Stocks

As a lover, and creator, of Magic content, this is great! #WotCStaff

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Lemme just go into the database and change those ones to "author: a different guy named Sean McKeown, not the one you're thinking of, he lives in Germany now"

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It's preserved externally on classicdojo.com (which is a fantastic site), but not hosted on my site. Still iterating on the UI there, tonight's deploy should make it a bit less confusing.

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Oh, awesome - I didn't know that, thanks for the pointer!

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Not yet, no - that's a good callout, I'll make sure and put them in the backlog.

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For the time being I'm focused on sites with multiple authors - happy to throw personal blogs in the backlogs, but it might be a long time before I get to them.

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Yeah, I've got it all in my database and cleaned up, just need permission to flip the "okay to rehost" switch. (I'd still ask all the individual authors for permission, both to be a nice guy and because copyright law is complicated.)

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You can click through to the Wayback Machine and read them there today. I'd love to get permission from WotC to reprint their stuff (or convince them to put it back online themselves), but I'm not holding my breath.

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Added to the backlog, thanks for the pointer!

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Thanks a lot! If you're open to it (and if you're the relevant rights-holder), I'd love to get your permission to start re-hosting the old Neutral Ground articles - happy to chat more over email, gregor@library-of-leng.com.

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Telling me about bugs you find or sites I'm missing is the main thing. If you happen know the owners of any of the no-longer-online sites and can convince them to let me re-host their stuff (with approval from the authors), that'd be amazing, but not holding my breath there.

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Our historical coverage is pretty good, although I'm looking to continue to grow it over time.

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If you're an author who'd like to make your old writing more accessible, please reach out to me here or over email: gregor@stocks-books.com. Please also let me know if you want anything corrected or removed.

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MM9: Clear the Land and the Fundamental Turn

I'm only hosting writing with the permission of the original author (e.g. library-of-leng.com/articles/doj... by @thezvi.bsky.social). For everything else, you need to click through to the original host or the Internet Archive to read it.

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When I asked for suggestions on what card to do next, there were two main suggestions. One was Trade Routes, and the other was Clear the Land. I was

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