Developers leverage MCP to connect AI models with real-world data
ByPulseAugur Editorial·[134 sources]·
Developers are exploring the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a way to integrate AI models with existing tools and data. MCP servers act as context translators, enabling LLMs like Claude to access live information such as product catalogs or codebases, thereby reducing context-switching and improving draft accuracy. While MCP offers benefits for upstream tasks like data retrieval, its effectiveness diminishes when applied to downstream or judgment-based processes, as demonstrated by a failed attempt to automate After Effects rendering. Security and authentication for MCP servers are also evolving, with options like OAuth, L402 payments, and proof-of-work being developed to manage access and prevent abuse.
AI
IMPACTMCP servers are enabling AI agents to interact with real-world data and tools, improving efficiency and accuracy in tasks like content creation and code analysis.
RANK_REASON
Multiple articles discuss the technical implementation, use cases, and challenges of a specific protocol (MCP) for AI agents.
arXiv:2606.04769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a critical standard empowering Large Language Models (LLMs) to utilize external tools. In this ecosystem, LLMs rely on natural language descriptions provided by MCP servers to select…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a critical standard empowering Large Language Models (LLMs) to utilize external tools. In this ecosystem, LLMs rely on natural language descriptions provided by MCP servers to select and execute functions. This interaction implicitl…
dev.to — Claude Code tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Nishil Bhave·
<ul> <li><p>Built 5 MCP servers in 2026, retired 4 daemons and a Zapier flow</p></li> <li><p>Catalog and blog-index MCPs saved roughly 9 hours per week</p></li> <li><p>Render-queue MCP was a mistake, ripped it back out after 11 days</p></li> <li><p>One pattern made every server a…
<p>The next Model Context Protocol specification, <code>2026-07-28</code>, is the largest revision since the protocol launched. The release candidate locked on May 21, 2026, and the final spec publishes on July 28. It contains breaking changes to transport, authorization, and how…
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Ismael Ramos 🚀·
<p>I've been building an MCP server to expose an internal documentation repo to an AI agent. Nothing exotic — a handful of tools that let the model search docs, read a section, look up a glossary term. The kind of thing you write in an afternoon.</p> <p>What surprised me wasn't t…
<p><em>Disclosure: I'm the author of SUPER-MCP, an open-source MCP server. The criteria in this article are derived from a threat model, not from SUPER-MCP's feature set. Apply this checklist to SUPER-MCP itself and you'll find it passes most items but not all: plugin OS isolatio…
<p>The Model Context Protocol has gone from a niche Anthropic project to industry-standard infrastructure in under two years - hitting 97 million monthly SDK downloads and earning a permanent home under the Linux Foundation. Every major AI coding tool now speaks MCP natively, yet…
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Jose Luis Castrillón Garrido·
<h2> Main Technologies </h2> <ul> <li>Docker</li> <li>Java 17</li> <li>Spring Boot 4.0.6</li> <li>Spring AI 1.0.0</li> <li>Ollama</li> </ul> <h1> Introduction </h1> <p>Large Language Models (LLMs) are no longer limited to answering questions. They can also interact with external …
<p>Hello everyone! ServBay 1.30.0 (ServBay for Windows 1.20.0) is finally here.</p> <p>AI-assisted programming is profoundly reshaping our daily development workflows, with AI assistants growing increasingly capable of understanding code. However, managing the local development e…
<h1> From Competitive Analysis to 3,042+ Downloads: Building a Docker MCP Server </h1> <p>You want to build an MCP server. You search npm, find 11 existing Docker packages, and realize the niche isn't empty. It's fragmented. That's actually the opportunity.</p> <p>Here's how I we…
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Himamsu Siriseni·
<p>Exposing a tool to an agent over MCP takes ten minutes. Building an MCP server that survives a model you don't control, on a tight token budget with limited thinking time, is the part nobody warns you about.</p> <p>We learned the difference shipping our own, consumed by third-…
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1Português(PT)·Higor Morais·
<p><em>Aprendizados de construir um servidor MCP de catálogo de cursos — da POC à produção.</em></p> <h2> O que é o Model Context Protocol (MCP)? </h2> <p>O <strong>Model Context Protocol (MCP)</strong> é um padrão aberto que permite que aplicações de IA (como o Cursor, Claude De…
<p>Running load tests from your AI coding agent sounds futuristic until you realize it's already possible. The Gatling MCP Server connects your Gatling Enterprise account to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. You can deploy tests, query results, and m…
<p>An MCP server exposes tools. <code>delete_repository</code>, <code>create_charge</code>, <code>execute_query</code>. The agent calls whatever it decides to call, and the server runs it. Nothing sits in between.</p> <p>Connect a coding agent to a GitHub MCP server and it can de…
<p>I have published an MCP server called <a href="https://github.com/kitepon-rgb/aiterm-mcp" rel="noopener noreferrer">aiterm-mcp</a> to npm. It is designed to let an AI hold a terminal as a "single persistent session."</p> <h2> AI terminal tasks consume tokens invisibly </h2> <p…
<p><strong>Before you publish an MCP server, run 10 checks.</strong> Most servers fail at least three — and the failures are invisible until an agent picks the wrong tool, hallucinates an argument, or silently drops your server on connect. This is the checklist we built <code>mcp…
<h1> The Model Context Protocol (MCP): what it is and how to build a server </h1> <p>Your team's LLM-powered application talks to a search index through one custom integration, a code repository through another, a Postgres database through a chain of LangChain tools, and a file s…
<p>AI agents forget everything between sessions. Here's how we built an MCP memory server that actually survives production — with circuit breakers, hybrid search, and a novel boundary algorithm.</p> <h2> The Problem: AI Amnesia is Real </h2> <p>Every developer who has used Claud…
Medium — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Himanshu Saini·
<h2> TL;DR </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>Curl and unit tests check the wire format. A real model checks whether the tool is usable</strong> — those are different failures.</li> <li>A model decides <em>which</em> tool to call, <em>when</em>, and <em>with what arguments</em> — your schem…
<p>The file was 1,800 lines long. It lived at ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. It had grown a table of contents on top, then nested headings, then a few inline rules that contradicted each other, then a section I had forgotten I wrote. I was halfway through adding another rule when I realize…
Medium — Claude tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Israel Oliveira·
<p>AI tools are becoming more useful for developers, but they still have one big problem: they do not automatically know your private files, your latest docs, your local database, or your project rules.</p> <p>Two ideas help solve this:</p> <ul> <li> <strong>RAG</strong> gives AI…
Medium — Claude tag
TIER_1English(EN)·George Pipis·
<p>MCP (Model Context Protocol) has become the standard way to connect <br /> AI models like Claude to your APIs, databases, and services. The <br /> ecosystem went from 2M monthly SDK downloads at launch to 97M by <br /> March 2026 — it moved fast.</p> <p>Here's a practical .NET…
<p>Hi HN,</p> <p>I built an open-source Java SDK for building Model Context Protocol servers:</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/6000fish/mcp-java" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/6000fish/mcp-java</a></p> <p>It is intended for Java developers who want to expose tool…
<p>Are you still hand-writing MCP servers for every API, frontend, and database in your stack? If you're building AI agents, you've probably felt the pain: days of boilerplate, constant drift when your app changes, and brittle tools that break silently.</p> <p>There's a better wa…
<p>{</* resource-info */>}</p> <h2> Introduction: Why MCP Is the Smartest Bet for Developers in 2026 </h2> <p>If you're still writing custom integration code for every LLM and every tool, you're doing 2025's work in 2026.</p> <p>In November 2024, Anthropic quietly released …
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Sahajmeet Kaur·
<p>When Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol in November 2024, the initial conversation was mostly about the protocol itself: a standard way for AI agents to discover and call tools without building custom integrations for every API. That problem was real and the protoco…
<p>Ask my agent "what's the open pipeline for Acme Corp?" as an admin and it answers $125,000 across two deals, with a table. Ask the exact same question as a support agent and it says, politely and correctly, that it can't see pipeline data and suggests who to ask instead.</p> <…
<p>FirstCall v0.2.0 is out. It is a local Rust workbench/CLI for turning known API calls into verified, redacted agent packages and generated MCP servers.</p> <p>The main change in this release is less glamorous than a new UI: the agent-package path is now harder to fake.</p> <p>…
<h2> TL;DR </h2> <ul> <li>I wanted to operate pages that require Google login from n8n via Playwright MCP</li> <li>The sidecar approach is easy, but has gaps from the perspectives of authentication and team isolation</li> <li>I built defense-in-depth with <strong><code>ingress: i…
<h2> Auditing an MCP Server Against the OWASP MCP Top 10 </h2> <p>The OWASP MCP Top 10 is now the taxonomy people reach for when they talk about MCP risk. It is the framework a security team will bring into a procurement conversation, and the one practitioners increasingly cite b…
<h2> The Problem: API Sprawl Kills AI Agent Productivity </h2> <p>Every AI agent builder hits the same wall. You want your agent to answer a simple business question like "What was our revenue last month?" But the data sits in Stripe. And Quickbooks. And Shopify.</p> <p>That's th…
<p>Email verification APIs cost $0.01–$0.05 per check. If you verify 10K emails/month, that's $100–$500 down the drain.</p> <p>I built <strong>Email Verify MCP</strong> — an open MCP server that does the same job using raw DNS lookups. Zero API fees.</p> <h2> How It Works </h2> <…
<h1> I Built MCP Servers for 9 SaaS APIs. Here's the Business Model Nobody's Talking About. </h1> <p><em>Free sample from the Nova Research Brief series — June 2026</em></p> <p>While everyone debates whether AI agents will replace developers, a quieter business is emerging: <stro…
<p>The problem with AI and blockchain data is simple: Claude knows a lot about Stacks, but it can't actually query the chain in real time.<br /> So I built a fix.<br /> Stacks MCP Server — an open source Model Context Protocol server that gives Claude real-time access to the Stac…
<p>An analyst exports a spreadsheet with customer data, uploads it into a generic AI chat, asks for a sales summary, and gets an answer in seconds. It feels productive. It is also one of the least governed ways to bring AI into an enterprise. The model sees the raw file. The orga…
<h1> I Built MCP Servers for 9 SaaS APIs — Here's What I Learned About the Pattern </h1> <p>I've spent the last few weeks building MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers for various APIs — CoinGecko, Stripe, Jira, PostHog, Plausible, Etherscan, DeFiLlama, Jobber, and Resend. Nine s…
<p>I've been running Cursor and Claude Code with MCP for a while now, and one thing became obvious pretty quickly:</p> <p>Giving an agent a generic <code>execute_sql</code> tool is usually a terrible idea.</p> <p>The first problem is context explosion. If an agent needs to unders…
<h2> The Problem: API Sprawl Is Killing Operator Productivity </h2> <p>Every business operator we talked to had the same complaint: they spend 40% of their time just logging into different platforms to pull numbers. Stripe for revenue. HubSpot for pipeline. Google Analytics for t…
<p>The MCP ecosystem is moving fast. New servers ship every week, get posted once to Discord or X, collect a handful of stars, then disappear from everyone's feed including the builder's own. There's no distribution layer for this category yet — no dominant aggregator, no algorit…
<h2> TL;DR </h2> <ul> <li>Live: 206 tools across 6 MCP servers, session start cost 2,100 tokens vs. 217,000 previously — the proxy runs as described.</li> <li>Most sessions never call <code>discover_tools</code> at all; the ~10 always-on tools cover the vast majority of knowledge…
<h2> TL;DR </h2> <ul> <li>Silent crash from a missing numpy dependency — subprocess tools fail without visible errors; "process started" is not "process working." Health checks are mandatory.</li> <li>Switching from TF-IDF to BM25 (pure stdlib, no dependencies) fixed noisy search…
<h2> TL;DR </h2> <ul> <li>The awslabs/mcp catalog grew from ~25 to 58 servers in six months — loading all of them naively burns ~200k tokens before a question is typed.</li> <li>A progressive disclosure proxy collapses session startup to ~2k tokens by replacing all tool schemas w…
<p>MCP server searches have crossed 60,000 per month and are still climbing. If you're building with AI agents in 2026, you've already hit MCP in Cursor's settings panel, Claude Desktop's config file, or a GitHub README. What you might not have is a clear, practical mental model …
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Alfredo Augusto·
<p>I kept rebuilding the same MCP server infrastructure for every project. After the 5th time setting up a Notion integration from scratch, I packaged everything into a reusable bundle.</p> <h2> What's in the bundle </h2> <p>15 fully functional MCP servers:</p> <div class="table-…
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Mike Martinez Oroz·
<p>Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming the standard for connecting AI agents to external tools. Claude Code uses it. Cursor uses it. Dozens of AI platforms are adding MCP support right now.</p> <p>But MCP servers run with <strong>implicit trust</strong>. When an AI a…
<p>The Model Context Protocol 2026-07-28 release candidate is the first MCP revision that should make remote servers feel like ordinary HTTP infrastructure instead of sticky-session infrastructure with JSON-RPC inside it.</p> <p>That is the useful mental model for developers. Pre…
<p>AI agents in healthcare should not have unrestricted access to internal systems.</p> <p>That means no direct access to:<br /> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>Qdrant Neo4j Postgres Redis HMS APIs shell filesystem raw logs se…
<p>If you are building an MCP server for task tracking, you eventually hit the same wall: the work outlives the connection. As of June 2026, that is exactly the gap MCP Tasks is trying to close. The important part is not that it exists — it is how far the protocol has actually st…
<p>This week I ended up writing down a rule that should have been obvious earlier:</p> <p>If an MCP tool can only ship through one channel, it is not really ready to ship.</p> <p>That sounds dramatic, but the operational pattern is simple. Discovery and distribution break more of…
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1Português(PT)·Alexander Budanov·
<p>If you are exposing an MCP server in front of a REST API, two things from our own experience that are worth passing on:</p> <ol> <li> <strong>Code change and tool-description change have to land together.</strong> Reshape a list response without updating the description, and y…
<p><strong>Subtitle:</strong> Replacing a multi-script monitoring design with MCP tools + CI assert</p> <h2> Summary </h2> <p>The same customer above planned a <strong>internal</strong> monitoring layer: cron jobs per vendor, S3 snapshots, custom severity rules, PagerDuty routing…
<p>Somebody at Sentry filed a bug last month: Cursor Automations started hitting rate-limit errors almost immediately after authenticating. The bucket was sized for humans — 60 requests per 60 seconds — and an agent tore through it in seconds.</p> <p>That's the MCP auth problem i…
Medium — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Taranpreet Singh·
<p>AI coding tools feel incredible—right until they don’t. Open a new project and suddenly your editor has no idea what your stack is, how auth works, or which packages are safe. You end up repeating yourself every session.</p> <p>Every session turns into the same exhausting back…
<p>Somebody at Sentry filed a bug last month: Cursor Automations started hitting rate-limit errors almost immediately after authenticating. The bucket was sized for humans — 60 requests per 60 seconds — and an agent tore through it in seconds.</p> <p>That's the MCP auth problem i…
<p>Every AI-agent-meets-data-stack project hits the same problem in the same order. First the agent connects to the warehouse and runs raw SQL. Then someone notices it is bypassing the semantic layer and getting numbers wrong. Then someone proposes 'just point it at the BI tool' …
<h1> MCP Rug-Pull Watch — continuous longitudinal trust history for MCP servers </h1> <p>A point-in-time check can't know a server silently changed last week. This corpus has watched every tracked server over time — the only way to catch a rug-pull (a trusted tool's description/p…
<p>The MCP ecosystem has been growing fast, but the supply-chain hygiene has not kept up. MCPwn (CVE-2026-33032, CVSS 9.8) exposed 2,600+ instances. The Shai-Hulud npm worm stole MCP auth tokens from 172 packages. MCPSafe found high-severity bugs in <em>official</em> MCPs from At…
<p>Every integration team has lived the same incident: <strong>a dependency changed its contract, nothing failed in CI, and production broke on a Tuesday anyway.</strong></p> <p>When Optic shut down, that pain got louder. Teams still need to know when an API they depend on — but …
<h1> MCP Server Discovery: How Claude and Cursor Find Your Tools </h1> <p>Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables Claude and Cursor to discover and execute remote tools through intelligent server discovery. When you configure an MCP endpoint, these AI assistants automatically detect…
<p>Every integration team has lived the same incident: <strong>a dependency changed its contract, nothing failed in CI, and production broke on a Tuesday anyway.</strong></p> <p>When Optic shut down, that pain got louder. Teams still need to know when an API they depend on — but …
<p>I built my first MCP server last week and it was way simpler than I expected. Here is exactly how, no fluff.</p> <h2> Prerequisites </h2> <ul> <li>Node.js 20+</li> <li>10 minutes</li> </ul> <h2> Step 1: Scaffold </h2> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highl…
<h2> TL;DR </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>Problem</strong>: Claude Code starts every session cold. It re-suggests libraries I already rejected, asks <em>"should we use X?"</em> about decisions made weeks ago, and re-reads unchanged files from scratch (paying full tokens each time).</li>…
<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-snippet">We are currently exploring potential use cases for MCP integration in a service we recently launched.</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/@info-risa/request-for-advice-on-mcp-integration-a96745c5e…
<p>We are currently exploring potential use cases for MCP integration in a service we recently launched.</p> <p>RISA PMT is an integrated project management tool that combines chat, kanban boards, Gantt charts, Wiki, and attendance management into a unified platform.</p> <p>As we…
<h1> MCP Server Discovery: How Claude and Cursor Find Your Tools </h1> <p>Modern AI development relies on dynamic tool discovery through Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. When Claude or Cursor need to execute tasks, they use <strong>tool_use</strong> and <strong>function_call…
<h1> MCP Server Discovery: How Claude and Cursor Find Your Tools </h1> <p>Modern AI development relies on <strong>MCP (Model Context Protocol)</strong> servers for seamless tool integration. Both Claude and Cursor use <strong>tool_use</strong> capabilities and <strong>function_ca…
<h1> MCP Server Discovery: How Claude and Cursor Find Your Tools </h1> <p>Claude and Cursor use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to dynamically discover and invoke tools via <code>tool_use</code> and <code>function_calling</code>. This enables seamless integration with external s…
<p>Not a hype list. These are the three MCP servers I have running right now in Claude Desktop.</p> <h2> 1. Filesystem </h2> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>mcp-hub <span class="nb">install</span> @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesyste…
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·NISHANT UNAVANE·
<p>Atlas started as a simple code analysis tool and grew into a suite of 33 developer tools packaged as an MCP server. It integrates with Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code.</p> <p>The core pipeline follows a six-stage process: Intent, Context, Decompos…
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Michael Egberts·
<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hermes-agent-2026-05-15">Hermes Agent Challenge</a>: Write About Hermes Agent</em></p> <h2> The Problem Nobody Talks About </h2> <p>Every AI can generate HTML. Give Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini a prompt and they…
<p>A while ago I tried to build a local coding assistant. I downloaded Qwen3, fired it up on my MacBook with 16GB of RAM, and within a day realized the output quality was nowhere close to Claude or GPT-5. The model could <em>fit</em>. It just couldn't <em>compete</em>.</p> <p>So …
<p>If you've spent any time building with AI agents in the last six months, you've probably seen "MCP" come up in Discord threads, GitHub issues, and Cursor release notes. Search volume for "mcp server" has crossed 60,000 monthly queries and is still climbing. So what exactly is …
<blockquote> <p><em>Originally published at <a href="https://claudeguide.io/claude-code-mcp-server-setup?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=claude-code-mcp-server-setup" rel="noopener noreferrer">claudeguide.io/claude-code-mcp-server-setup</a></em></p> <…
<h1> MCP Server Discovery — How Claude and Cursor Find Your Tools </h1> <p>Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables Claude and Cursor to discover and invoke external tools dynamically. When you configure an MCP endpoint, these IDEs perform automatic <strong>tool_use</strong> and <str…
<h1> MCP Server Discovery — How Claude and Cursor Find Your Tools </h1> <p>Modern AI development frameworks like Claude and Cursor use <strong>Model Context Protocol (MCP)</strong> servers to discover and integrate external tools dynamically. Here's how tool_use and function_call…
<p>This blog was originally published on <a href="https://www.descope.com/blog/post/mcp-directories" rel="noopener noreferrer">Descope</a>.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.descope.com/learn/post/mcp" rel="noopener noreferrer">Model Context Protocol (MCP)</a> has quickly establish…
<blockquote> <p>Originally published on <a href="https://rohitraj.tech/en/notes/secure-mcp-server-typescript-2026" rel="noopener noreferrer">rohitraj.tech</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Microsoft Copilot Cowork was exfiltrating SharePoint and OneDrive files via a 5-line prompt injectio…
<p>The first time <code>intodns-mcp</code> saved me real time was on day one. Claude scanned a client's domain, listed seven concrete issues with citations to the live records, and proposed exact zone-file edits — in under three seconds. Before MCP, that conversation was three br…
Medium — Claude tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Avinash Kumar·
<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-snippet">A beginner-friendly guide to MCP — and a real project that lets you ask your business data questions in plain English.</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://avi-nash.medium.com/from-buzzword-to-build-yo…
<p>After ten days of running the v1.1.0 publishability rubric against every MCP server I can find on npm under the official <code>@modelcontextprotocol</code> scope, the cluster pattern is now<br /> hard to ignore.</p> <p><strong>6 of 6 official Anthropic-shipped MCP servers scor…
<blockquote> <p><em><strong>Spec version notice:</strong> This article targets MCP specification version <strong>2025-11-25</strong>. The protocol has shipped breaking changes between versions, tool schema field names and error codes have shifted in previous releases. Verify the …
Medium — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Jishnu Srivastava·
<p>One of the best investments you can make for your design system right now is a <a href="https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro" rel="noopener noreferrer">Model Context Protocol (MCP)</a> server. As AI models evolve they are becoming increasingly more capabl…
<p>The ThoughtWorks Technology Radar Volume 32 put "MCP by default" in their Caution ring. Their argument is precise: MCP adds real value for structured tool contracts, OAuth-based authentication boundaries, and governed multi-tenant access. It also introduces what Justin Poehnel…
<p>I started using Claude Code recently and I noticed something that bothered me. Before doing any real work, Claude was wasting a lot of tokens just guessing my system configuration — wrong shell, wrong package versions, wrong CDN URLs. It tried to run bash commands on my Window…
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·David Golverdingen·
<p>Most MCP servers I see in production are stuck at Level 1 or 2. They wrap an API, expose some tools, and stop there. The result: an agent that can technically call your systems but doesn't actually understand your domain.</p> <p>After shipping nine MCP servers across ERP, BIM,…
Medium — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Yaw Nana Gyamfi Prempeh·
<p>Not a hype list. These are the three MCP servers I have running right now in Claude Desktop.</p> <h2> 1. Filesystem </h2> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>mcp-hub <span class="nb">install</span> @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesyste…
<p>MCP servers become a lot more useful when they can reach the internet. A file-reader is nice. A tool that fetches live data is something else.</p> <p>I built a web search tool for MCP. It uses DuckDuckGo (free, no API key needed) and returns LLM-formatted results.</p> <h3> The…
<h2> Why It Matters </h2> <p>The recent release of Mcpaudit, a static security scanner for MCP servers, is a significant development in the field of cybersecurity. As reported on GitHub by allenwu-blip, this tool aims to identify potential security vulnerabilities in MCP servers …
<p>Last week I shipped two things in 72 hours:</p> <ol> <li>A free MCP server (50 calls/month, hosted) that exposes 10 typed tools for measurement uncertainty math — Type A/B, Welch-Satterthwaite, Monte Carlo, the lot.</li> <li>A paid Excel toolkit ($19) that wraps the same math …
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*wpASV-2WvZPEdjnN3e5XJw.png" /><figcaption>Figure: Production-Grade MCP Server with JWT Auth and Role-Based Tool Access</figcaption></figure><h4>How I designed a secure, multi-tenant Model Context Protocol server …
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Syed Anas Mohiuddin·
<p>MCP (Model Context Protocol) is now embedded in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, and hundreds of other AI tools. Every one of those tools runs MCP servers — and almost none of them have been security audited.</p> <p>I spent the last month building <a href="https://git…
<p>I shipped <code>elementor-mcp-agent</code> v1.0 today — an open-source <a href="https://modelcontextprotocol.io" rel="noopener noreferrer">Model Context Protocol</a> server that lets Claude (and any MCP client) drive WordPress Elementor across many client sites. It's MIT, on n…
<p>A few weeks ago HashiCorp shipped <a href="https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server" rel="noopener noreferrer"><code>terraform-mcp-server</code></a>. It's an official MCP server that lets a model lean on the Terraform Registry: search providers, pull module docs, mana…
<p>I spent the last six weeks building an unofficial MCP server for Infomaniak — the Swiss hosting provider — that lets Claude (and any MCP client) drive web hosting, mail, kDrive, DNS, SSL certificates and AI tools from natural language. It's MIT, on npm as <code>infomaniak-mcp-…
<p>CLI Market hit 3,760 retailers this week. With that scale came problems. </p> <p>Here's what we fixed and what we learned.</p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>[Problem 1: Search timeout][...] [Problem 2: --json flag that didn't …
<p>The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is how AI agents talk to tools. Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf — they all use it. But most MCP servers have 5-10 tools.</p> <p>I built one with 127.</p> <h3> Why? </h3> <p>I run a local AI operations platform called <strong>The Sovereign Hive</s…
<p>mcp-probe started as a small CLI for checking whether an MCP server starts and exposes tools.</p> <p>That was useful, but after feedback from developers running real MCP servers in agent workflows, the gap became obvious:</p> <blockquote> <p>A server can start, pass <code>tool…
<p>MCP has 13,000+ servers and 97M monthly SDK downloads. But finding them sucks — you search npm with weird prefixes or dig through GitHub folders.</p> <p>So I built <code>mcp-hub</code>:<br /> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>npm…
dev.to — MCP tag
TIER_1English(EN)·Artyom Rabzonov·
<p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> We ran <code>npx -y <package></code> against 922 npm-published MCP servers, sent them the JSON-RPC <code>initialize</code> and <code>tools/list</code> calls, and captured what they did. 359 responded. 563 failed in 15 distinct ways that say more a…
<p>The <a href="https://modelcontextprotocol.io" rel="noopener noreferrer">MCP (Model Context Protocol)</a> ecosystem has exploded. <a href="https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers" rel="noopener noreferrer">awesome-mcp-servers</a> lists 200+ servers — but there was no wa…
<p>i shipped an MCP server six months ago expecting it to be a weekend toy. it's now been pulled down a little over 2,300 times from npm and runs inside other people's editors every day. that gap — between "stdio script i tested once" and "thing strangers depend on" — is where i …
<p>You've got 47 MCP servers running. Your agent needs the GitHub one, the Postgres one, and the Slack one — but it also has access to 44 others it absolutely does not need for this task. You shipped this to production last week. Someone asked it to "check our repos" and it got c…
<p><strong>TL;DR: Before our SDXL stack renders a single product photo, a small LLM agent assembles the request from product metadata, a template lookup, and a brand-colour database. Wiring those tools separately for each provider kept drifting. Bifrost's MCP gateway let us regis…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi all,</p> <p>I have published a small open-source MCP server bundle called <strong>MCP Basic Servers</strong>:</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/mchowy-troll/mcp-basic-servers">https://github.com/mchowy-troll/mcp-basic-servers</a></p> <p>It is…
<h2> The problem </h2> <p>mcp server discovery is a mess. you find a server on some github awesome-list, open the repo, realize it hasnt been touched in 8 months. the aggregator sites show a fraction of whats actually out there and most of them filter their listings down to whate…
<p><strong>A TypeScript scaffold for production MCP servers that ships with pluggable auth, per-tool rate limiting, structured audit logs, and OpenTelemetry — so you can build the actual tools and not reinvent the boring parts.</strong></p> <p>Every MCP server tutorial I've read …
<p><strong>MCP servers expose tools to LLMs, but most configs grant tools broader permissions than they need, ship without auth, and leak prompt-injection surface in tool descriptions. This scanner finds it before your model does.</strong></p> <p>Most MCP servers I've audited in …
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I've been adding more and more MCP servers to my Claude setup (Claude Desktop + Claude Code), and the same thing keeps tripping me up: actually finding and trusting good servers.<br /> Last week I wanted one for a specific task and the process we…
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Claude has zero native security tooling by default, so I built </p> <p>a local MCP server that adds:</p> <p>- WHOIS lookup</p> <p>- DNS enumeration (with subdomain brute-forcing)</p> <p>- Nmap port scanning with service detection</p> <p>- SSL/TLS…
