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Teaching Kimi to Speak Claude Code: A Field Guide to Tool-Format Translation

Teaching Kimi to Speak Claude Code: A Field Guide to Tool-Format Translation

Every utility that translates tool-calling formats between LLM providers — LiteLLM, Bifrost, Portkey, claude-code-router, Vercel AI SDK, first-party /anthropic endpoints — what each one actually does, and the three failure classes none of them have solved. Plus the conclusion I arrived at: stop adapting context downward to each model, and build a harness that orchestrates harnesses instead.

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The Harness, Not the Model: Why the Same LLM Burns 4× the Tokens Without the Right Scaffolding

The Harness, Not the Model: Why the Same LLM Burns 4× the Tokens Without the Right Scaffolding

A token-efficiency reading of the 'harness > model' thesis: the same model solved 6.7% of tasks bare vs 68% with the right harness — at 4× fewer tokens. What a harness is, why it's where the token bill actually lives, and what the Life-Harness and Meta-Harness papers prove. Plus how your Claude Code stack (subagents, skills, hooks, graphs) already is a harness.

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