Giving an agent web search without the hallucinations
Search is the easy part. The workflow around it — fetch, cache, cite, and refuse — is what keeps an agent honest. Adding a search tool…
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The media asset pipeline with MCP: ElevenLabs, Cloudinary, Mux, and Replicate
Four MCP servers that cover voice, assets, delivery, and model runs. How they fit together into a content pipeline an agent can actually operate. Most MCP…
Publishing with an agent: the draft-first workflow
WordPress MCP plus a skill library makes an agent a competent publishing assistant. The rule that keeps it safe is simple: drafts, not publishes. An agent…
Three MCP servers that touch money — and how we scope their tokens
Stripe, Twilio, and HubSpot MCP servers can move real money and send real messages. Here is the access pattern we would use, and the mistakes that…
Cloudflare, AWS, and Snowflake MCP servers: mapping the blast radius
Infrastructure MCP servers are the most useful and the most dangerous. A practical way to decide what an agent may read, what it may change, and…
The MCP install checklist: twelve questions before you add a server
Most MCP servers are one npx command away. The twelve questions worth answering first, from token scope to what happens when the project is abandoned. Installing…
Why we label ‘official’ MCP servers separately — and what the label does not mean
An official server is maintained by the vendor. That is a maintenance signal, not a quality guarantee. Here is how the label works on this site…
71% of MCP packages are MIT — and that tells you almost nothing
We record the license of every package we compile. The distribution is unsurprising and worth stating plainly: 245 of 343 are MIT (71%), 51… We record…
Half of the MCP packages on npm are used fewer than a thousand times a week
Every directory ranks. Almost none publish the shape of what they are ranking. So here is ours, measured across the 343 npm packages that… Every directory…
We dropped 44 packages that were not MCP servers
For two weeks our package table had a defect we did not notice: it was sorted by downloads, and the top entry was Playwright… For two…