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Browsers shipped a security model for humans. Agents are asking us to keep using it.

Arthur2d ago • 12 min read

Browsers shipped a security model for humans. Agents are asking us to keep using it.

The browser security model is one of the most carefully thought-through pieces of software engineeri...

#browsers#aiagents#security#mcp

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Why 'Offline-First AI' Is No Longer Optional for the Global South

Gabriel Mahia5d ago • 3 min read

Why 'Offline-First AI' Is No Longer Optional for the Global South

Why "Offline-First AI" Is No Longer Optional for the Global South There's a quiet...

#mcp#ai#opensource#africa

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Connecting an MCP server gives your agent hands. It also gives a stranger a way in.

Rapls4d ago • 5 min read

Connecting an MCP server gives your agent hands. It also gives a stranger a way in.

The moment you connect an MCP server, your coding agent stops being a thing that reads and writes in...

#ai#security#claudecode#mcp

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Bridging IFTTT to Your Local AI Assistant with an MCP Proxy

Maish Saidel-Keesing6d ago • 7 min read

Bridging IFTTT to Your Local AI Assistant with an MCP Proxy

IFTTT shipped MCP support but only for Claude and ChatGPT. Here's how I built a 500-line Node.js pro...

#mcp#quick#aws#ai

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MCP After Year One — Six Design Lessons the Industry Is Still Learning

Arthur1d ago • 8 min read

MCP After Year One — Six Design Lessons the Industry Is Still Learning

Anthropic announced the Model Context Protocol in November 2024. A year and a half later it is the c...

#mcp#aiagents#anthropic#llm

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60% of My $312 Anthropic Bill Came From One Missing Pattern: Compensating Actions

강해수1d ago • 2 min read

60% of My $312 Anthropic Bill Came From One Missing Pattern: Compensating Actions

멀티스텝 에이전트가 중간에 깨졌을 때 되돌릴 수 없는 사이드이펙트를 남기지 않으려면 compensating action을 어떻게 설계해야 하는가. 실패 사례와 비용 기록.

#ai#aiagents#mcp#cloudflare

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Building a Python MCP Server from Scratch - A Practical GitHub API Guide

Moksh Gupta6d ago • 6 min read

Building a Python MCP Server from Scratch - A Practical GitHub API Guide

The Model Context Protocol has gone from a niche Anthropic project to industry-standard...

#python#ai#mcp#developertools

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Building an AI Chat Agent with MCP, Spring AI

Praveen Yadav1d ago • 6 min read

Building an AI Chat Agent with MCP, Spring AI

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for connecting AI apps to tools and data sources. A...

#ai#spring#mcp#react

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A user's terminal opened a code editor instead of running my CLI tool.

Adrin T Paul2d ago • 2 min read

A user's terminal opened a code editor instead of running my CLI tool.

No error. No crash log. Just... my .js file, popped open in an IDE, like the computer decided to...

#cli#javascript#mcp#node

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Lessons from building 20 MCP Apps in 2 days

Teal Larson5d ago • 4 min read

Lessons from building 20 MCP Apps in 2 days

A few weeks back, my team sat down for two days and built around twenty MCP Apps. I came out with a....

#ai#mcp#frontend

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Postgres MCP Server: Connect Databases to AI Agents (2026)

Nishil Bhave6d ago • 14 min read

Postgres MCP Server: Connect Databases to AI Agents (2026)

Postgres MCP Server: How to Connect Your Database to AI Agents (and What to Lock Down...

#postgres#mcp#modelcontextprotocol#databasesecurity

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What Is an AI Gateway? (And the Week We Realized We Desperately Needed One)

Sahajmeet Kaur1d ago • 9 min read

What Is an AI Gateway? (And the Week We Realized We Desperately Needed One)

Six months ago our team had three different SDKs, four API keys floating in .env files, zero cost vi...

#ai#llm#claude#mcp

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Why AI agents can't draw SVG (and what to do instead)

Siva Teja1d ago • 3 min read

Why AI agents can't draw SVG (and what to do instead)

Ask any frontier model to "draw an architecture diagram as SVG" and you'll get something that looks....

#ai#llm#mcp#webdev

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I got tired of re-explaining my project to AI every session, so I built EGC

Felipe Marzochi2d ago • 3 min read

I got tired of re-explaining my project to AI every session, so I built EGC

You open your AI coding tool on a project you haven't touched in a week. You type "let's continue."....

#ai#opensource#productivity#mcp

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launchd's minimal PATH breaks MCP servers: uv command not found

Bryan Clark1d ago • 7 min read

launchd's minimal PATH breaks MCP servers: uv command not found

A stdio MCP server is just a subprocess. Your agent runtime runs something like uv run my-mcp-server...

#macos#launchd#mcp#selfhosted

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Fix LLM formatting in the tool layer, not the prompt

Bryan Clark1d ago • 8 min read

Fix LLM formatting in the tool layer, not the prompt

If you point an LLM agent at an MCP server and then route its replies through text-to-speech, you...

#ai#mcp#voiceassistant#llm

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My verdict layer had two readers. Only one of them had eyes.

Lazypl821d ago • 6 min read

My verdict layer had two readers. Only one of them had eyes.

An internal release agent finished a deploy a little after 2 a.m. and then had nothing it could...

#devops#deployment#observability#mcp

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An AI agent acted across two companies. Whose audit log knows which human?

Alex LaGuardia22h ago • 6 min read

An AI agent acted across two companies. Whose audit log knows which human?

Single-issuer agent delegation is solved. The moment the chain crosses into a partner's identity pro...

#ai#security#oauth#mcp

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I Build MCP Servers. Here's the Security Hole Nobody Talks About.

Enjoy Kumawat2d ago • 4 min read

I Build MCP Servers. Here's the Security Hole Nobody Talks About.

MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is having its moment. It's the "USB-C of AI": one standard plug,....

#mcp#ai#security#claudecode

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Introducing kazi-mcp: Labor Market Coordination for Kenya's 15 Million Informal Workers

Gabriel Mahia2d ago • 2 min read

Introducing kazi-mcp: Labor Market Coordination for Kenya's 15 Million Informal Workers

Introducing kazi-mcp: Labor Market Coordination for Kenya's 15 Million Informal...

#mcp#kenya#africa#ai

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Africa Is Not Behind. It's Building on Better Rails.

Gabriel Mahia2d ago • 3 min read

Africa Is Not Behind. It's Building on Better Rails.

Africa Is Not Behind. It's Building on Better Rails. Here is the sentence that reframes...

#africa#ai#mcp#geopolitics

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What does your AI agent actually trust when it trades through a CEX?

Baris Sozen2d ago • 5 min read

What does your AI agent actually trust when it trades through a CEX?

A wave of "AI agents can now trade" tooling shipped this quarter. Kraken put out a CLI described as ...

#mcp#ai#cryptocurrency#blockchain

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Can an AI Agent Behave Like a Human? A 12-Hour Experiment with StoryCaptcha

Shahraan Hussain6d ago • 4 min read

Can an AI Agent Behave Like a Human? A 12-Hour Experiment with StoryCaptcha

A day ago, I came across a LinkedIn post from Tyler Richards showcasing an experimental CAPTCHA...

#ai#security#automation#mcp

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I gave a fresh model only my tool descriptions and watched it mis-route my own users

Hex2d ago • 5 min read

I gave a fresh model only my tool descriptions and watched it mis-route my own users

I maintain an MCP server. It has 15 tools and a respectable test suite, all green. Then I did...

#mcp#ai#testing#opensource

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