I had seven MCP servers turned on. GitHub, filesystem, a docs indexer, Playwright, something that talked to Linear, a half-finished Postgres adapter copied from a gist, and a "helpful" filesystem sibling pointing at my home folder because I was in a hurry on a Tuesday.
The agent was busy. It was not useful. It spent the first minute of every session listing tools, called the wrong one twice, and once opened a pull request with a token that could also delete the repo.
So I turned six off and packed the one job I actually repeat — open a draft PR from this branch, never merge, never touch main — into a single plugin folder. The week got quieter.
That's the One Socket rule: one live connection per job, everything else a paragraph in a skill file. And it clears up the three words people keep mixing: a skill is how, a server is access, a plugin is the envelope.
Name the job first. Then decide whether it needs a live wire at all — most don't.
The piece has the rule, a draft-PR skill you can steal, and a twenty-minute clean-out. 👇
If it quiets your week too, a coffee keeps these coming. ☕❤️
