Your Homelab Has a Brain Now. Here Is How to Wire It.
Your AI forgets everything between sessions. MCP fixes that. Here is how to wire Claude into your Obsidian vault, running on your own Proxmox hardware, with n8n handling the automation.
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Prompt Engineering Is Not Magic. It Is Instruction Writing.
You learned how tokens and context windows work. Now learn how to exploit them. Prompt engineering is not a mystical art. It is structured communication with a machine that follows instructions literally. Here is the field manual, sourced from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google.
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How AI Actually Works: Tokens, Context Windows, and Why Your Chatbot Forgets Things
How LLMs actually work: tokens, transformers, context windows, attention, and output sampling. Plus proven techniques to optimize token usage in Claude and ChatGPT. Interactive demos included.
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MCP Hit 97 Million Installs. The Protocol War Is Over.
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol crossed 97 million monthly SDK downloads. Every major AI provider supports it. The Linux Foundation just took it under open governance. This is the standard now.
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