Blog/Tag
20 articles tagged MCP, newest first. Each one is sourced and written for people who ship.
AI agents
·11 min read
How to design agent tools that get picked and called correctly: task-shaped tools, descriptions, schemas, compact responses and errors a model can act on.
AI agents
·7 min read
Where AI agents help with end-to-end tests: Playwright planner, generator and healer, MCP or CLI, and the guardrails that keep healed tests honest.
AI agents
·12 min read
What the Agent2Agent protocol standardizes in v1.0: agent cards, tasks, bindings, security, how it differs from MCP, and when it is worth using.
AI agents
·8 min read
OpenCode is an MIT-licensed terminal coding agent for any model, hosted or local. Agents, permissions, MCP and LSP, plus the data-protection trade-offs.
AI agents
·9 min read
Gemini CLI review: Apache-2.0 and still releasing, but the free individual route closed on 18 June 2026. Left: Code Assist, billed API keys and Vertex AI.
Web engineering
·10 min read
Browserbase rents managed Chrome per minute and Stagehand adds natural-language steps. What it costs, where the meters run and when plain Playwright wins.
Web engineering
·11 min read
WebMCP lets a page publish typed, callable tools to an in-browser agent. What the standard does, how much ships today, and when a plain MCP server wins.
AI agents
·9 min read
modelcontextprotocol/servers reviewed: seven reference servers, what each one teaches, their SDK versions, and why none belongs in production.
AI agents
·10 min read
A review of the OpenAI Agents SDK: the runner loop, tracing, guardrails and approvals, plus what the release churn and the Responses-only features cost.
AI agents
·10 min read
Cursor bundles an editor, a terminal agent and cloud runs in one plan. What its two usage pools cost, and when Copilot, Claude Code or Cline wins.
AI agents
·10 min read
An engineering review of Claude Code: the extension surface, the real cost per developer, and the exact boundary of the Bash sandbox.
Retrieval & search
·10 min read
Firecrawl turns URLs into clean Markdown through one hosted API. What it costs, where crawl accounting breaks down, and when to run the AGPL core yourself.
AI agents
·9 min read
MCP 2026-07-28 drops sessions and the initialize handshake. For server authors: _meta, server/discover, MRTR, auth and a migration checklist.
AI agents
·10 min read
Goose, an Apache-2.0 Rust coding agent under the Linux Foundation: how its permissions, recipes and MCP extensions compare with commercial tools.
AI agents
·11 min read
Mastra review: agents, workflows, memory, MCP and evals in one TypeScript framework. What its Apache-2.0 core covers, and what the ee/ split costs.
AI agents
·7 min read
Agent skills in practice: about 20 skills in one master folder for three coding agents, from reproducing bugs with real data to PRs, with guardrails.
AI agents
·8 min read
Context engineering decides what a coding agent has in context: rules in AGENTS.md, procedures in skills, and when an MCP tool beats a shell command.
AI agents
·11 min read
Cline: an Apache-2.0 agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal. What Plan and Act, checkpoints and auto-approve guarantee, and where safety leaks.
Web engineering
·10 min read
Playwright: one Apache-2.0 API for Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, with a test runner, agent CLI and MCP server. What it costs and where it falls short.
LLMOps & evals
·10 min read
LiteLLM: the MIT-licensed OpenAI-compatible gateway most platform teams run in front of providers. What it does well, what it costs, where it breaks.