IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
20 articles
02 Oct 2026 · 6 min read
agents
Part 2 of the AI agent architecture series: a real MCP server, a real LangGraph graph, and the actual bug — a blog-dedup agent that catches exact-match duplicates fine and faceplants on the semantic case, with a 401 to prove it.
Read more29 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
ai
Public Preview lets you tag an existing OpenAPI spec and expose it to AI agents at /mcp, reusing your current auth and quotas. Here's the real config, the real limits, and why the tool description field is now the most important line in your spec.
Read more03 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
JetStream shipped Clearance this week — a reasoning engine that authorizes every agent tool call against a versioned policy before it runs, not after. Here's how it differs from network-layer MCP detection, and what I'm taking from it for my own agent gateway.
Read more30 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-agents
Anthropic's Aug 27 research preview of MHS gives AI agents a standard interface to operate lab and manufacturing hardware. As a Tech Lead who has wired MCP servers to internal tools, here's why this is MCP's shape applied to physical devices — and what breaks when the tool call controls a centrifuge instead of a database.
Read more20 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
Cloudflare shipped protocol-level detection for MCP traffic this month. A walkthrough of how it fingerprints agent tool calls, and the checklist I now run before wiring any new MCP server into my own agent stack.
Read more15 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
Agent Plugins 1.0 packages skills and MCP servers into one installable plugin that works across Copilot, Claude, Cursor, and more. A technical lead's take on the packaging format, governance model, and where the 1.0 spec still has rough edges.
Read more31 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
ai-agents
The July 28 MCP specification eliminates sessions, removes the initialize handshake, and makes every request self-contained. A technical breakdown of what changed, why it matters for load balancers and multi-tenant deployments, and how to migrate existing servers.
Read more20 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
agentic-ai
Google's ARD specification (v0.9, 2026) defines how AI agents discover tools at runtime via ai-catalog.json. A Tech Lead's practical guide: what it means, how it compares to MCP, and how to make your platform agent-discoverable today.
Read more09 May 2026 · 15 min read
agentic-ai
How the central question of building with AI has shifted three times in four years — from 'what should I say?' to 'what system should I build?' A deep dive into prompt engineering, context engineering, and harness engineering with architecture diagrams, decision frameworks, and production lessons for engineering leaders.
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