Tooling notes

Infrastructure MCP servers are the most useful and the most dangerous. A practical way to decide what an agent may read, what it may…

Cloud agents get the headlines, but the local ones are where most developers actually work. An honest look at three approaches, their trade-offs, and…

A repeatable test any team can run: five tasks, one checklist, and a scoring rule that tells you whether an agent fits your repository…

Answer engine optimisation is not keyword stuffing for chatbots. It is structure: a direct answer, extractable facts, and a visible date. Here is the…

Generative engine optimisation has attracted the same tricks as SEO. The difference is that answer engines do not count links — they check whether…

An official server is maintained by the vendor. That is a maintenance signal, not a quality guarantee. Here is how the label works on…

All three agents can edit a repository. They differ in where the code lives, when a human sees the diff, and what happens when…

Stripe, Twilio, and HubSpot MCP servers can move real money and send real messages. Here is the access pattern we would use, and the…

A repository with two files named `config.ts` will send an agent to the wrong one roughly half the time. Nothing about that is mysterious:……