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Model Context Protocol - building MCP servers, integrations, and extending AI tools.

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Claude Code MCP Tasks: Long-Running Tools That Ask You Things

Claude Code supports MCP Tasks and elicitations. What a tool call needs to become a task, what v2.1.319 changed for Bedrock and gateways, and what server authors change.

Oct 24, 20268 min read

MCP Client Features: Sampling, Elicitation and Roots Explained

MCP sampling, elicitation and roots explained against the 2026-07-28 spec, with JSON-RPC examples and which of 24 clients support each one.

Oct 18, 202613 min read

REA vs leanrea: Skill or MCP for Reverse Engineering Agents?

leanrea is an 8 KB skill pitched as a replacement for the REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) MCP server. What its benchmark shows, what it skips, and which to install.

Oct 18, 20267 min read

How to Publish a Plugin to the Claude Directory (Developer Portal Guide)

Submit a plugin to the Claude directory: validate it, clear the security scan, publish, and read 90 days of usage analytics. Needs a paid plan.

Oct 17, 202615 min read

ChatGPT Plugin Extensions: Sidebar Apps, Panels and File Editors

ChatGPT plugins can now add sidebar apps, side panels, file editors and native forms. How openai/ui entrypoints work, with type-checked code.

Oct 17, 202614 min read

ChatGPT MCP Events: Start Work Tasks From Gmail, Slack, GitHub

How to start ChatGPT Work tasks from Gmail, Slack, GitHub and your own MCP server events: setup steps, the 30-runs-per-hour cap and signed webhook code.

Oct 17, 202612 min read

Claude API Inline Tool Definitions: Add Tools Mid-Conversation

Claude API inline tools beta: define, reshape or upgrade a tool mid-conversation with one system message and keep the prompt cache. Code included.

Oct 17, 202611 min read

Codex MCP Server Removed: How to Migrate to the App Server

codex mcp-server is gone as of Codex CLI 0.154.0. Here is how to move an integration to the experimental app server and its JSON-RPC protocol.

Oct 17, 202613 min read

Custom GPTs Retire Dec 11, 2026: How to Migrate to Plugins

Custom GPTs retire Dec 11, 2026. Instructions and files migrate to a ChatGPT plugin automatically; custom actions do not. Here is the developer plan.

Oct 17, 202612 min read

What's New in Mastra (Late 2026): Harness, AgentController GA, Eval Gates and MCP 2.x

Mastra in late 2026: goals, schedules, signals, AgentController GA, eval gates and MCP 2.x, with type-checked TypeScript examples and honest tradeoffs.

Oct 17, 202614 min read

MCP vs A2A vs Function Calling: Which Layer Does What in 2026

MCP vs A2A vs function calling compared on the 2026-07-28 MCP spec and A2A 1.0: what each protocol does, where they overlap, and how to stack them.

Oct 17, 202613 min read

Pydantic AI V2 in Late 2026: Capabilities, Graphs, Evals and MCP

Pydantic AI V2 explained through v2.68.0: ModelFallback on refusals and max_tokens cutoffs, RequestInput approvals, typed output, Conversation storage, caching, graphs, evals, MCP Apps and Logfire, with checked code.

Oct 17, 202620 min read

Reverse Engineer Anything (REA): What the MCP Server Does and Where the Line Is

REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) is an MIT-licensed MCP server that lets Claude Code, Codex or Cursor inspect binaries, Electron apps and APKs. How to try it.

Oct 14, 20267 min read

Claude Opus 5.5 Built a Browser 3D World: The Higgsfield MCP Workflow

Claude Opus 5.5 and Higgsfield MCP built an interactive 3D Library of Alexandria in the browser. The verified connector setup and where the workflow holds up.

Oct 5, 20268 min read

Pi 1.0 Release Guide: MCP, Codemode and Pi Durable

Pi 1.0 adds built-in MCP through Codemode, a fullscreen TUI by default and Pi Durable. What changed, how to install it, and what breaks on upgrade.

Oct 2, 20266 min read

What Is OpenClaw? Setup, Skills, MCP Server, Claude Code, and Ollama (2026 Guide)

What is OpenClaw? A self-hosted personal AI agent you reach through chat apps. Install, skills and ClawHub, its MCP server, Claude Code use, and Ollama models.

Sep 28, 202612 min read

CodeNib Makes Repository Context a Data System

CodeNib treats repository context as compiled infrastructure, so coding agents stop rediscovering the same repo through grep and reads. What it builds.

Aug 24, 20268 min read

The New MCP Roadmap: Progressive Discovery and Agent Auth

The new MCP roadmap prioritizes progressive discovery for large tool catalogs and standardized agent identity. What changes for developers building MCP servers.

Aug 23, 20267 min read

How to Make Claude Code 10x Better at Design: Image and Video Assets From the Agent Loop

Make Claude Code better at design by putting image and video generation in the agent loop with Higgsfield MCP and CLI, so sites ship with real assets.

Aug 22, 20268 min read

Cloudflare Gateway Can Now Detect MCP Traffic on the Wire: Shadow MCP Gets a Network Boundary

Cloudflare Gateway now detects MCP traffic by protocol header, adds a shadow MCP dashboard, and can block MCP connections outside approved portals.

Aug 15, 20267 min read

Deploy From Your Coding Agent: Wire Railway's MCP Server Into OpenCode

Deploy from OpenCode with Railway's MCP server: create the project, deploy the service, assign a domain, set variables and read logs as agent tool calls.

Aug 11, 202610 min read

Ship a Remote MCP Server: Give Your Coding Agent Cloud Tools in an Afternoon

Ship a remote MCP server: now that MCP is stateless, build one with an agent, deploy it on Railway, and point opencode or Claude Code at the public URL.

Aug 10, 202610 min read

Cloudflare Radar Researcher: A Plain-Language Agent Over 500 Live API Endpoints

Cloudflare Radar Researcher is a plain-language agent over live internet data, built on MCP code mode and chart specs that keep numbers out of the model.

Aug 7, 20267 min read

Agent Plugins 1.0.0: One Package Format for Agent Skills and MCP Servers

Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is an open standard that packages Agent Skills and MCP servers into one plugin, with ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor and Copilot support at launch.

Aug 6, 20267 min read

Stateless MCP Is Here: What the 2026-07-28 Spec Changes and How to Host a Fleet of Servers on One Bun Process

Stateless MCP: the 2026-07-28 spec drops sessions, so every request is one self-contained POST. What changed and a Bun + Hono pattern for many servers.

Aug 1, 20267 min read

Vercel MCP Ships the 2026-07-28 Spec: The MCP Migration Clock Starts

Vercel MCP now serves the stateless 2026-07-28 spec and the 2025 protocol from one endpoint via mcp-handler 2.x. What it means for server authors and clients.

Aug 1, 20267 min read

MCP Apps vs Tool Calling vs Standalone UIs: Interactive Interfaces for Agent Tools Compared

MCP Apps vs tool calling vs standalone web UIs: how sandboxed interactive UIs for MCP servers compare to the other two, and when to use each approach.

Jul 29, 20269 min read

MCP vs Agent Skills: When to Use Which (and Why You Need Both)

MCP vs Agent Skills: MCP gives agents live access to tools and data, Skills give them packaged procedure. The decision rule for when to use which, or both.

Jul 29, 202611 min read

Codex and Claude Code in July 2026: Agent Controls Are the Feature

Codex and Claude Code July 2026 updates compared: why approval modes, resumable work, MCP auth, artifacts and review surfaces now matter as much as models.

Jul 26, 20268 min read

AI Agent Auth Platforms Compared: Arcade vs Composio vs Nango vs Stytch

AI agent auth platforms compared: Arcade, Composio, Nango, and Stytch on OAuth 2.1, MCP support, integration counts, and which to pick by workload.

Jul 24, 20268 min read

DataFlow-Harness Shows Why Agents Need Editable Pipelines

DataFlow-Harness shows why coding agents doing data work should produce editable, validated pipelines instead of throwaway scripts, and what to copy first.

Jul 24, 20268 min read

MCP Clients Compared: How to Pick a Host for 2026

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Zed, and opencode all speak MCP differently. Here is how their transport, auth, and tool-limit support compares.

Jul 9, 20269 min read

Safari MCP Server Developer Guide 2026

Safari MCP server guide: let AI coding agents inspect pages, take screenshots, run JavaScript and check accessibility in Safari, with setup steps and workflows.

Jul 6, 20267 min read

AgentCanvas is a visual adapter for Claude Code and Codex

AgentCanvas is a visual adapter for Claude Code and Codex that puts artifacts, decisions and handoffs on one board, so the next agent or human can see them.

Jul 5, 20266 min read

MCP tools need a shared board, not another transcript

MCP tools solve invocation but not visibility. Why tool output needs a shared board instead of a transcript, and when a board is overkill for multi-agent work.

Jul 5, 20265 min read

Agent Studio: Authoring the Roles, Not Just the Knowledge

Agent Studio lets you author subagents next to your skills and serve both over one MCP endpoint, plus REST and the dd CLI, with a community moderation loop.

Jul 3, 20269 min read

One Endpoint, Every Capability: A Reference Architecture for Progressive Disclosure

A reference architecture for progressive disclosure: skills, files, memory and generation on one MCP endpoint, scoped by one API key and one credit balance.

Jul 3, 202610 min read

MCP Servers vs Agent Skills: Which to Build in 2026

MCP servers vs Agent Skills: MCP gives an agent access to a live system, Skills teach it how to do a task. A five-question framework for which one to build.

Jul 2, 202610 min read

Linked Context: When a Skill Can Point at the Whole Web

Skill Studio lets anyone author skills on the same progressive-disclosure MCP endpoint, and a skill file can be a link fetched only when an agent needs it.

Jul 2, 202610 min read

The MCP 2026-07-28 Rewrite: What Breaks and How to Migrate

MCP 2026-07-28 breaking changes: a stateless core, deprecated Roots, Sampling and Logging, and tougher OAuth, plus a migration checklist for server authors.

Jul 1, 202611 min read

Point Your Agent at Developers Digest

Developers Digest MCP server: connect any MCP client, like Claude Code or Cursor, to generate media, fetch skills, save memory, search content and count tokens.

Jul 1, 20267 min read

Skills Delivered Over MCP: Why Progressive Disclosure Is the Missing Piece of Both Standards

Skills over MCP: an MCP server whose tools are a skill directory, so agents pay context only for what a task needs. The argument and a working implementation.

Jul 1, 20269 min read

Perplexity Bumblebee: Developer Guide to the Open Source Supply Chain Scanner

Perplexity Bumblebee: an open source, read-only Go scanner that checks packages, editor extensions and MCP configs against exposure catalogs, with setup steps.

Jun 27, 20267 min read

Arcade AI Agent Authorization: A Developer Guide

Arcade AI agent authorization explained: what its MCP runtime does, how it differs from rolling your own OAuth, and when it is the right fit.

Jun 24, 20267 min read

Agent Identity Is the Missing Security Layer for AI Workflows

Agent identity for AI workflows: what the Linux Foundation's Agent Name Service proposal means for verifiable identity, scoped capabilities and audit trails.

Jun 23, 20267 min read

GitHub Copilot Agent Finder: What ARD Means for Third-Party AI Tools in 2026

GitHub Copilot Agent Finder discovers and invokes MCP servers, skills and agents like Claude and Codex. How the open ARD spec changes AI tool integration.

Jun 19, 20268 min read

MCP Goes Stateless: The 2026-07-28 Migration Guide

MCP 2026-07-28 spec migration guide: sessions and the initialize handshake are gone. What changed, what breaks, and how to move your MCP servers to stateless.

Jun 19, 20269 min read

Zero-Touch OAuth Is the MCP Feature Enterprises Were Waiting For

MCP Enterprise-Managed Authorization explained: zero-touch OAuth moves agent tool access into the identity, policy and audit systems enterprises already run.

Jun 19, 20268 min read

Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP: Enterprise Auth Gets Practical

MCP's new Enterprise-Managed Authorization removes per-user OAuth friction. Anthropic, Okta, Figma, and Linear ship centralized auth for AI agent tooling.

Jun 19, 20267 min read

Mellum2 Developer Guide: JetBrains' Open-Source Coding Model

Mellum2 developer guide: JetBrains' open-source 12B MoE coding model with 2.5B active parameters. How to run it locally and where it fits in your coding stack.

Jun 18, 20267 min read

GitHub Copilot SDK Hits GA: Embed the Copilot Agent Runtime in Your Own Apps

GitHub Copilot SDK is generally available: embed the Copilot agent runtime in your apps across six languages. What changed at GA and what it means for builders.

Jun 17, 20268 min read

Microsoft's Work IQ APIs Hit GA: What Agent Builders Actually Get on June 16

Microsoft Work IQ APIs give agents pre-assembled, permission-trimmed Microsoft 365 context. What the domains, protocols and pricing mean for developers.

Jun 17, 20267 min read

OpenCode Developer Guide: The Open Source AI Coding Agent with 160K Stars

OpenCode developer guide - install the open source, model-agnostic AI coding agent, pick models across 75+ providers and compare it with Claude Code.

Jun 12, 202611 min read

WebMCP: Google's Browser Standard That Lets AI Agents Use Websites as Tools

WebMCP lets websites expose JavaScript functions and HTML forms to AI agents as structured tools. What the Chrome 149 origin trial does and how to implement it.

Jun 12, 20268 min read

Headroom: Compress Agent Tool Output Before It Reaches the LLM

Headroom compresses AI agent tool outputs, logs, and files before they reach the LLM, claiming 60-95% token savings with benchmarked accuracy. How it works.

Jun 6, 20268 min read

The Agent Security Checklist I Use Before Connecting Tools

Before an AI agent gets tools, files, APIs, MCP servers, or deployment access, decide what it can read, write, call, log, and roll back.

May 30, 20268 min read

Prompt Injection in Agent Apps: The Practical Version

Prompt injection in agent apps is an architecture problem. Practical defenses: data boundaries, structured handoffs, tool guardrails, and approval gates.

May 30, 20268 min read

Claude Knowledge Work Plugins Turn Agent Setup Into Team Infrastructure

Claude knowledge-work plugins bundle skills, connectors, slash commands and sub-agents by job function, turning personal prompts into team infrastructure.

May 25, 20267 min read

Anthropic Buying Stainless Is About Agent Plumbing

Anthropic's Stainless acquisition is a bet that agents need generated SDKs, CLIs, docs and MCP servers built from one source of truth.

May 19, 20268 min read

AgentMemory Is Useful Only If You Audit What It Remembers

AgentMemory gives Claude Code, Codex and Cursor persistent local memory. The real adoption test is whether your team can inspect, prune and govern it.

May 16, 20268 min read

Claude Code 2.1.128 Is an Ops Release, Not a Feature Drop

Claude Code 2.1.128 is an ops release: fixes for MCP, worktrees, OTEL, plugins and permissions that matter for teams running coding agents every day.

May 5, 20266 min read

The 98% Context Reduction Pattern

The agent context reduction pattern: keep intermediate state in code, files and execution environments, and return compact summaries and receipts to the model.

May 2, 20268 min read

Claude Code Agent Teams, Subagents, and MCP: The 2026 Playbook

Claude Code is turning into an orchestration layer for agent teams. Here is how subagents, MCP, hooks, and long context fit together in 2026.

May 2, 20269 min read

One Tool Beats Ten Endpoints

Agent tool design: why intent-shaped tools beat REST endpoint mirrors, cutting context and tool menu tax while returning reviewable receipts.

May 2, 20268 min read

OpenAI Apps SDK: Building MCP UIs Inside ChatGPT

Apps SDK (now ChatGPT plugins) is MCP plus an optional web component rendered in ChatGPT. How the server, the UI resource, auth and publishing actually work, with code adapted from OpenAI's quickstart.

Apr 29, 202610 min read

Model Context Protocol: A Production Guide To Building MCP Servers

Build MCP servers that connect Claude to your databases, APIs, and tools. Architecture, TypeScript SDK code, debugging, and the production gaps the spec doesn't cover.

Apr 29, 202613 min read

Open-Source MCP Servers Worth Installing in 2026

The open-source MCP servers worth a permanent slot in your config, each with what it does, why it matters, and copy-paste setup for Claude Code and Cursor.

Apr 29, 202612 min read

Claude Code as an HL7 to FHIR Migration Agent for Hospitals

Hospitals still ship HL7 v2 pipes between systems in 2026. Here is how to wire Claude Code as a careful, HIPAA-aware migration agent that takes them to FHIR.

Apr 28, 202611 min read

The DD Stack Cookbook: Five Recipes That Compose

Five DD stack recipes that compose: persistent agent filesystems with agentfs, auto-snapshots, gated skill libraries, eval suites, and a recursive MCP host.

Apr 28, 20269 min read

Claude Context Is Code Search For Agents. Treat It Like Retrieval Infrastructure.

Claude Context gives coding agents semantic code search over MCP. The real test is whether retrieval makes agent work cheaper, more reviewable, and verifiable.

Apr 28, 20268 min read

MCP Lens: Wireshark for Model Context Protocol Servers

MCP servers are stdio-only black boxes. MCP Lens proxies the JSON-RPC stream, captures every frame, and serves a local inspector at localhost:4040.

Apr 28, 20268 min read

Six More Tools for the Agent Infrastructure Stack

The second half of our agent tooling release: distribution, validation, and ergonomics layered on top of the first six. Six small CLIs, one through-line.

Apr 28, 20269 min read

10 Tools We Built for Agent Infrastructure

Ten private tools shipped overnight - observability, skills, hooks, prompts, and evals - aimed at the agent infrastructure gap small teams keep falling into.

Apr 28, 202611 min read

10 Trending AI Dev Tools, Week of April 28 2026

From Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 to Andrej-karpathy-skills and EvoMap - the AI dev tools actually shipping the last 30 days, with commands, links, and pricing.

Apr 28, 20269 min read

271 MCP Servers Exist. These 5 Actually Make Claude Code Better.

Most MCP servers are noise. After shipping 24 apps with Claude Code, these are the five I reach for every time.

Apr 19, 202611 min read

What Is MCP (Model Context Protocol)? The 2026 Developer Guide

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard connecting AI apps to tools and data. How the 2026-07-28 spec works and how to install or build a server.

Apr 19, 202614 min read

What Hacker News Gets Right About AI Coding Agents in 2026

What Hacker News gets right about AI coding agents: workflows beat demos, skills beat prompts, orchestration beats autonomy, and verification is the bottleneck.

Apr 18, 202611 min read

Why Skills Beat Prompts for Coding Agents in 2026

Skills beat prompts for coding agents because giant prompts do not scale. The 2026 control stack: project rules, reusable skills, bounded sub-agents and tools.

Apr 18, 20269 min read

The MCP Server Ecosystem: A Developer's Guide for 2026

MCP server ecosystem guide for 2026: curated picks by tier and category, real Claude Code configurations, install commands and honest assessments of what works.

Apr 9, 202613 min read

MCP vs Function Calling: When to Use Each

MCP servers and function calling both let AI tools interact with external systems. They solve different problems. Here is when to reach for each.

Apr 3, 20266 min read

Claude Code Channels: Telegram, Discord, iMessage, and Webhooks

Claude Code Channels let Telegram, Discord, iMessage and webhooks push events into a running session. When to use them and how the security model works.

Apr 2, 20268 min read

The Complete Guide to MCP Servers

Everything you need to know about Model Context Protocol - how it works, how to install servers, how to build your own, and the best ones.

Apr 2, 202612 min read

How to Build MCP Servers in TypeScript

Build MCP servers in TypeScript step by step: setup, tools, resources, prompts, testing with Claude Code and the MCP Inspector, and production patterns.

Apr 2, 202614 min read

The Best MCP Servers in 2026: A Complete Directory

A searchable directory of 184+ MCP servers organized by category. Find the right server for databases, browsers, APIs, DevOps, and more.

Apr 2, 202610 min read

Best MCP Servers in 2026: The Developer Shortlist

Best MCP servers in 2026, ranked for Claude Code, Cursor and other agents: GitHub, Filesystem, Context7, Playwright, Postgres, Sentry and starter stacks.

Mar 19, 202610 min read

How to Use MCP Servers: The Complete Guide

MCP servers connect AI agents to databases, APIs, and tools through a standard protocol. Here is how to configure and use them with Claude Code and Cursor.

Mar 19, 202611 min read

CLIs Over MCPs: Why the Best AI Agent Tools Already Exist

OpenClaw has 247K stars and zero MCPs. The best tools for AI agents aren't new protocols - they're the CLIs developers have used for decades.

Mar 9, 20268 min read

Composio 101: Give Your AI Agent Access to 500+ Apps

Composio connects AI agents to Gmail, GitHub, Slack and hundreds more apps with auth handled for you. How to set it up and build real cross-app workflows.

Mar 9, 20267 min read

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