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The Build Report exists because most coverage of AI building tools — Claude Code, Cursor, MCP servers, Obsidian setups — is either vendor marketing repackaged as a review, or a listicle optimized for a keyword instead of a reader. We use these tools daily to build real software and write down what actually holds up.

Two rules govern every piece here. First: no sponsored or paid placements, ever — a tool earns a mention by being genuinely useful, not by paying for it. Second: every factual claim — pricing, feature availability, launch dates — carries a source, and where we can't verify something with confidence we say so instead of guessing.

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