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Why Your Coding Agent Keeps Failing — And How to Make It Project-Aware with MCP

Coding Agents: Why “Smart” Isn't Always “Accurate” We often imagine a Coding Agent as a reliable assistant who can generate clean, consistent, and well-integrated code. But in reality, the experience can be… frustrating: Knowledge Gaps: The agent doesn’t understand your codebase, so it guesses—often wrongly. Wrong Task Decomposition: It breaks down the task, but into steps that don’t fit your project’s actual structure. Repeating Mistakes: Even if you correct it once, it forgets, and the same mistakes come back next prompt. MCP‑Shrimp Task Manager: Not a Task Manager, but a Context Bridge That’s why I built MCP‑Shrimp Task Manager — It’s not just about managing tasks. It’s about helping your Coding Agent understand your project.

Apr 21, 2025 - 12:16
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Why Your Coding Agent Keeps Failing — And How to Make It Project-Aware with MCP

Coding Agents: Why “Smart” Isn't Always “Accurate”

We often imagine a Coding Agent as a reliable assistant who can generate clean, consistent, and well-integrated code.

But in reality, the experience can be… frustrating:

  1. Knowledge Gaps: The agent doesn’t understand your codebase, so it guesses—often wrongly.
  2. Wrong Task Decomposition: It breaks down the task, but into steps that don’t fit your project’s actual structure.
  3. Repeating Mistakes: Even if you correct it once, it forgets, and the same mistakes come back next prompt.

MCP‑Shrimp Task Manager: Not a Task Manager, but a Context Bridge

That’s why I built MCP‑Shrimp Task Manager —

It’s not just about managing tasks. It’s about helping your Coding Agent understand your project.

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