266 posts tagged with "Model Context Protocol"
Content about the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Your Users Already Deploy With ChatGPT as Their Ops Team
A May 2025 Ask HN thread shows developers already treat ChatGPT and Claude as their ops team. Here is the survey data proving it, why copy-paste ops breaks, and the scoped-tool ladder that turns chat into deploy-from-chat.
The Vendor Ships the Protocol, the Community Ships the Policy: What Coolify's Governed MCP Servers Teach About Agent Interfaces
Coolify's built-in MCP server covers reads while community servers add operation modes, scoped tokens, approval gates, and audit logging — a field guide to the seven governance controls every self-hosted PaaS agent interface should launch with.
Every PaaS Ships an MCP Server Now: Dokploy vs. Railway in the Agent-Interface Race
Dokploy mirrors all 508 API endpoints as MCP tools while Railway curates ten hosted tools plus a TypeScript deploy-your-own guide — an operation-by-operation comparison across deploy, logs, env, and rollback, and the nine-item checklist a self-hosted Render-compatible MCP surface must clear.
Only LLM Spans Should Cost Money: Span-Class-Aware Billing for Agent Observability
Span-class-aware metering prices LLM spans while tracing tool calls free — the worked cost math, which vendors already do it, and an OTel Collector recipe for self-hosted agent observability.
MCP at 400M Downloads a Month: What 4x Growth Means for a PaaS That Hosts and Governs Agent Tools
MCP passed 400M monthly SDK downloads — 4x this year — on a new stateless spec that turns every server into a plain container. Here is the growth data, why a self-hosted PaaS can now host the catalog on owned capacity, and the four-item governance checklist before 'bring any MCP server' ships.
The MCP Stateless Transition Has Barely Started: An Ops Guide to the Mixed-Version Window
Only 4% of live MCP endpoints speak the stateless 2026-07-28 wire. This ops guide gives you a routing table for the mixed-version window, a handle-passing migration pattern for deploy and rollback tools, and the case for shipping stateless-first.
CNCF Says MCP Gateways Belong in the Platform. Here's What That Actually Requires
MCP gateways are now a CNCF Platform Engineering 2.0 pillar. Here's what a gateway does that an ad-hoc MCP server doesn't — OAuth 2.1 auth, per-caller rate limits, deny-by-default tool scoping, poisoning detection — and how much of it a self-hosted PaaS control plane already absorbs.
SUSE Put MCP Across Its Whole Portfolio: What a Vendor-Blessed Agent-to-Infra Interface Means for Your PaaS's Own MCP Server
SUSE embedded MCP servers across Rancher Prime and Multi-Linux Manager with AWS, n8n, Revenium, and Stacklok aboard. Here is what a vendor-blessed agent-to-infra interface validates for a PaaS agent API, where its patch-and-monitor scope stops short of the git-push deploy surface, and a checklist for building that surface yourself.
Whose Token Is It? Solving the MCP and OAuth2 Identity Problem for AI Agent Deploys
Every deploy, rollback, or scale call an AI agent makes must answer who authorized it: the developer, the agent, or the tenant. This post maps the three-identity model, the July 2026 MCP authorization rules, and the token-exchange pattern that keeps deploy-from-chat auditable.