Guides, comparisons and deep-dives on MCP, AI agents and the tools around them.
MCP is the open protocol that lets AI agents plug into real tools — GitHub, Postgres, Slack — without bespoke glue code. Here is how it works and why it matters in 2026.
Ranked list of the 15 most useful MCP servers you can drop into Claude Desktop today. We tested each one; commands copy straight into your config.
Complete walk-through to install your first MCP server in Claude Desktop. Config paths, common mistakes, how to verify the hammer icon appears.
Step-by-step: enable MCP in Cursor, add your first servers, debug the most common issues. Works for Cursor 0.45+ on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Three ways to give an AI agent tools. They look similar. They are not. Here is when MCP wins, when OpenAI functions win, and when LangChain is still the right call.
If you spend your day in pull requests, issues and a terminal, these eight MCP servers collapse the context-switching tax to near zero.
Walk through a minimal MCP server that exposes one tool: get the current weather. Runs in Claude Desktop and Cursor. Under 50 lines of TypeScript.
Installing Postgres MCP right the first time: connection strings, read-only roles, query timeouts, and the three config tweaks that avoid prod incidents.
Three of the biggest MCP-capable clients in 2026. Which one to install for general-purpose agent work, for coding, and for heavy research. Honest breakdown.
Step-by-step recipe for giving Claude Desktop safe SQL access to Postgres: dedicated role, statement timeout, SSL, schema scoping. Copy-paste ready.
Hammer icon missing or a server shows red in Claude Desktop? Walk-through of the nine most common causes and the exact fix for each.
Why Docker is the right way to run MCP servers for teams — image pinning, secret passing, network scoping, and a battle-tested config template.
Stop pasting configs in Slack. A repeatable pattern for team-wide MCP setup: Git-versioned server definitions, one-command bootstrap for new hires, secret isolation.
Comparing Google BigQuery and Snowflake through an MCP lens: query latency, cost control, schema discovery, and which fits different agent workflows.
From Kubernetes triage to Terraform plan review: the ten MCP servers that collapse the time between “incident fires” and “incident resolved”.
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