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Tools vs Skills vs MCP: Three Layers of an AI Agent
Tools expose actions, skills encode workflows, and MCP standardizes external connections. A clear mental model for designing agent architectures without mixing the layers.
1495 wordsRead articleUnderstanding AI Agents: Tool Calling, MCP, and the Agent Loop
Learn how tool calling, MCP, and agent loops fit together to form the real architecture behind agentic AI systems, beyond the buzzwords.
3643 wordsRead articleHardening a TypeScript MCP Server for Real Network Traffic
How to take an MCP server from stdio to Streamable HTTP with per-session isolation, OAuth bearer auth, rate limits, error boundaries and injection defenses.
4874 wordsRead articleMCP Fundamentals: Hosts, Clients, Servers and the JSON-RPC Wire Format
Learn why the Model Context Protocol exists, how hosts, clients and servers divide the work, what JSON-RPC messages look like and how stdio and HTTP transports differ.
1735 wordsRead articleAgent Registries Tell You What Exists, Not Whether You Can Still Trust It
A four-question framework for agent capability registries covering existence, fitness, standing and provenance, plus a simple last-verified test you can run today.
1796 wordsRead articleWiring MCP Tools Into a React Chat UI With Human Approval Built In
Learn how the Model Context Protocol fits a React app: why the backend should host MCP, how a tool server works, and how to stream and approve tool calls in the UI.
3444 wordsRead articleBeyond Tab and Cmd+K: Configuring Cursor for Context, Safety and Scale
A grouped tour of lesser-used Cursor features, from scoped rules and @ context to auto-run allow lists, checkpoints and background agents, and when each one pays off.
1577 wordsRead articleLearning Agentic AI Engineering in the Order Failures Teach It
A structured path into agent engineering: the failure modes agents exhibit, the core stack, five ordered projects, and the state, review and security patterns that keep them safe.
4604 wordsRead articleStateless MCP: Scaling Servers Without Sessions or Handshakes
How a stateless Model Context Protocol drops sessions and handshakes, and how _meta, multi-round requests, routing headers, caching and tasks keep it usable.
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