Five MCP Servers Before Claude Code Writes a Single Line

Claude Code went from research preview to a meaningful share of all public GitHub commits surprisingly fast, per Anthropic's own data and the broader best-practices roundup. Most of those commits shipped to production. A meaningful share rolled back soon after. The interesting question is not how the model writes the code. It is what happens in the early window before it starts. That window is where good Claude Code sessions and bad ones diverge. The Cold-Start Problem A fresh Claud...