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Tools & MCP·19 min read

MCP Webhooks: Build Event-Driven Agents That React in Real Time

MCP's request-response model breaks when AI agents need to react to external events. Build event-driven agents today with stateless HTTP and webhooks.

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Tools & MCP·13 min read

How MCP Tool Descriptions Break Your Agent

New research shows 97% of MCP tool descriptions have quality issues that hurt agent accuracy. Here's what the smells look like, why they matter, and how to fix them.

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Tools & MCP·12 min read read

AWS Just Gave Your Agent 15,000 Cloud Tools

The AWS MCP Server is now GA. One tool call reaches any of 15,000+ AWS APIs, sandboxed Python execution lets agents run multi-step operations, and Agent Skills replace heavyweight SOPs with on-demand guidance. Here's what changed and how to wire it.

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Tools & MCP·14 min read

MCP Apps: Build UIs That Render Inside AI Chat

MCP Apps let your tools return interactive HTML dashboards, forms, and visualizations that render inline in Claude, ChatGPT, and VS Code. Here's how to build them for CX agents.

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A browser dashboard showing live agent tool calls and state updates streaming in real time
Tools & MCP·13 min read

AG-UI: The Protocol That Connects Agents to UIs

AG-UI is the open event-based protocol that streams AI agent state to any frontend in real time. Here's how it works, what events it defines, and how to wire it up in TypeScript.

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Diagram showing an MCP server with OAuth 2.0 token validation, per-tenant tool scoping, and multi-tenant isolation layers
Tools & MCP·15 min read

MCP Auth in Production: Scopes, Tokens, and Tenant Isolation

Most MCP servers ship with no auth. Here's how to add OAuth 2.0 scopes, per-tenant tool sets, and client isolation before your MCP server becomes load-bearing production infrastructure.

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Developer console with a grid of tool tiles fading out as a routing accuracy curve declines past tool 50
Tools & MCP·10 min read

Past 50 tools, function-calling accuracy falls off a cliff

Past 50 tools, function-calling accuracy falls off a cliff. Measure the curve on your own agent and recover accuracy with per-turn toolset scoping.

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Tools & MCP·11 min read read

MCP tool description drift: the silent failure nobody alerts on

Edit an MCP tool description for clarity, lose 8% routing accuracy, and the eval suite stays green. How to detect, gate, and roll back the drift.

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Tools & MCP·13 min read

Stop Loading All Your MCP Tools at Once

Loading 50 MCP tools burns 72K tokens before your agent says a word. Progressive tool discovery fixes that: smaller context, sharper decisions, real code patterns.

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Tools & MCP·12 min read

MCP SSE Is Deprecated. Here's How to Migrate

SSE transport is being deprecated across major MCP platforms in 2026. Here's a practical migration guide from HTTP+SSE to Streamable HTTP, with TypeScript examples and a phased rollout strategy.

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Tools & MCP·14 min read read

7 FastMCP mistakes that break your agent in production

FastMCP servers that work locally often fail at scale. Seven common mistakes, from missing annotations to monolithic tool sets, and how to fix each one.

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Diagram showing MCP as a foundational protocol layer with agent configuration, memory, testing, and observability stacked above it
Tools & MCP·16 min read

MCP Is Now Open Infrastructure: Build for What's Next

MCP was donated to the Linux Foundation and the AAIF just held its first summit. What does the protocol becoming open infrastructure mean for what you build on top of it?

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