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RAG vs MCP is the wrong debate — here's the right framing for production AI systems
The question I keep seeing in every AI engineering forum right now: "Should we use RAG or MCP?" It's the wrong question. And the fact that it's being …
Agentic Web Email Infrastructure
Your agent is three steps away from completing a registration. It filled out the form, submitted it, and got a 200 OK back. The service responds: "Che…
KIOKU v0.7.0: completing multi-agent — Gemini and Codex CLI now get automatic session logging
Context I've been building KIOKU — a memory / second-brain OSS for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and (since v0.6) Codex CLI / OpenCode / Gemini CLI. Th…
Bridging 'I Want to Build' and 'I Want to Publish Safely' for Non-Engineers — Sandbox MCP
Hi, I'm Ryan , CTO at airCloset. In my previous posts, I've introduced our internal MCP servers: an MCP server for natural-language search across all …
Monetizing 6 Ancient Chinese Divination APIs with x402 (MCP + USDC on Base)
Why an MCP server for fortune-telling? I'm not joking. Hear me out. The Chinese divination corpus is deterministic computation dressed up as mysticism…
Atomic cross-chain trades, explained: a hands-on walkthrough of HTLCs
Cross-chain trading has a hard problem at its core: how do you move value between two ledgers that don't speak to each other, without either side gett…
I Was Building a Live Trading Bot and a Patented Wagering System. The Bug I Found Is Now Breaking AI Agents Everywhere.
This isn't a library I built to solve a theoretical problem. It's a fix I built because real money was at risk. The trading bot I've been running a li…
MCP + gRPC: The Missing Piece for Production-Ready AI Agents (No More JSON Pain!)
“Your AI agents are smart… but your infrastructure is still stuck in JSON?” Let’s fix that. 🌍 The Big Shift: From Local Toy → Enterprise-Ready AI Unti…
Agent Identity Is the New Control Plane. Enterprise Security Just Figured It Out.
Two articles dropped today that, taken together, tell a very clear story about where agentic commerce is headed. The Infrastructure Is Done Insignia B…
Don't Build Your MCP Server as an API Wrapper
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is gaining traction as the standard way to connect language models to external systems. And the first instinct of mos…
Best agentic API integrations platform in 2026
TL;DR An agentic API integrations platform is where coding agents (like Claude, Cursor) build API integrations and AI agents in your product call them…
Don't Build Your MCP Server as an API Wrapper
Anthropic recently published a useful post on building agents that reach production systems with MCP: Building agents that reach production systems wi…
Activepieces and MCP: What We Learned Building AI Workflows
What We Set Out to Build In early 2026, we started evaluating open-source alternatives to proprietary automation platforms after watching per-integrat…
Microsoft Fabric Just Exposed Its MCP Architecture. Here's What It Actually Changes for Data Teams.
Enterprise data platforms have spent decades building walls around their data. Microsoft just shipped the protocol that lets AI agents walk through th…
gpt-image-2 API Developer Guide: Pricing, Thinking Mode, and Production Integration (2026)
gpt-image-2 API Developer Guide: Pricing, Thinking Mode, and Production Integration (2026) OpenAI announced gpt-image-2 on April 21, 2026 — but the of…
What is MCP and Why Java Developers Should Care
What is MCP and Why Java Developers Should Care Every AI tutorial shows you how to build a chatbot. You give it a system prompt, connect it to an LLM,…
Claude Code Was Getting Dumber. Semantic Memory Fixed It.
I use Claude Code as my primary development tool. It manages a home automation stack spread across five machines — camera monitors, WhatsApp agents, L…
MCPNest Gateway — One URL to Rule All Your MCP Servers
MCPNest v1.11 | April 2026 The MCP ecosystem has a governance problem. Developers are installing MCP servers directly into Claude Desktop and Cursor —…
MCP is the authoring layer. Execution should cost zero tokens.
Two posts on Reddit this month independently measured MCP's token overhead. Both reached the same number: 30–40% more tokens than the CLI equivalent. …
Your AI Agent Has Your API Keys (And So Does Every Other Agent)
Open your Claude Code settings.json . Look at the env blocks under your MCP servers. Every API key, every database token, every webhook URL you've put…
# Tool Calling in LangChain, LangGraph, and MCP: # Three Layers, One Intelligent System
Now I have the freshest 2025–2026 data. Let me write the fully verified, trend-accurate, non-repetitive final version: Tool Calling in AI Agents: Lang…
Claude! Stop Burning Tokens on Your Agent's Tool Output!
A Two-Stage Curator That Pays for Itself I watched Claude Code feed 108,894 bytes of seq 1 20000 back into its own context window. That output contain…
Securing MCP in Production: PII Redaction, Guardrails, and Data Exfiltration Prevention
Production is a different security environment In development, the worst that happens when an agent misbehaves is a confusing output or a wasted API c…
Best Arcade.dev alternatives for AI agent integrations in 2026
TL;DR Arcade.dev is an MCP runtime that executes authenticated tool calls for AI agents. It works well for MCP-first teams that need a hosted runtime …
A Claude Code hook that warns you before calling a low-trust MCP server
Last week researchers at Ox published findings showing that the MCP STDIO transport lets arbitrary command execution slip through unchecked, and that …
Full-Proof: Distillery 0.4.0 and the Agent Memory Problem
Full-Proof: Distillery 0.4.0 and the Agent Memory Problem !!! note "Release summary" Distillery 0.4.0 shipped April 19, 2026. It's the release where t…
We Scored 100 Sites on Agent Readiness. Every One Failed.
AI agents are the next consumer of the web. Claude, ChatGPT, Siri, Copilot — they're all trying to interact with websites on behalf of users. But the …
Your LLM Costs Spiked 400% Last Night — Here's How to Catch It in One API Call
You wake up Monday morning. Coffee in hand, you open your LLM provider's billing dashboard. The weekend total: $2,400 . Your usual weekend spend is $6…
Build a Paid MCP Server with x402 Micropayments: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
You want to build an MCP server that AI agents pay to use — per call, in USDC, no subscriptions, no invoices. Just: agent calls your tool, payment hap…