MCP
7 essays tagged with MCP.
Inside Anthropic's 2026 Claude Platform: Managed Agents, Tools, Memory, and MCP
A builder's map of the Messages API, Agent SDK, Managed Agents, programmatic tools, MCP, Skills, memory, task budgets, and enterprise controls.
Inside OpenAI's 2026 Agent Platform: Responses, Tools, MCP, and Control
A builder's map of the Responses API, programmatic tools, multi-agent orchestration, MCP, identity, spend controls, and deployment boundaries.
Secure the MCP and Tool Supply Chain: Trust Must Be Continuous
MCP tool descriptions enter the agent's decision loop. Use this attack trace, control scorecard, and policy to stop metadata from becoming authority.
Give Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex Persistent, Auditable Memory
Coding agents are brilliant and amnesiac. SecondBrain's open-source Memory API gives Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT shared, local-first memory over HTTP and MCP — where every answer carries a citation back to the source chunk.
The State of AI Agents in 2026: Standards Converged, Models Improved, Production Moved to the Harness
A mid-2026 review of agentic AI: MCP, A2A and AP2 converged as standards and models got more reliable — yet the bottleneck moved to the governed agent harness.
Agent Identity Is the New Trust Boundary
A practical model for separating agent identity, workload proof, user delegation, scoped authority, and audit across MCP and A2A.
MCP Adapters in Production: The Manifest Is the Safety Boundary
How MCP fits behind a production adapter manifest with schemas, auth, approval modes, idempotency, observability, and replay.