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One API Key vs 7,000 Tools: Where a Self-Hosted PaaS's MCP Server Should Land
·Dora Noda·11 min

One API Key vs 7,000 Tools: Where a Self-Hosted PaaS's MCP Server Should Land

A homelab MCP bridge runs your infrastructure behind one API token; Arcade's engine vaults per-user OAuth behind 7,000 tools. The head-to-head operator math at three team sizes, and where a self-hosted PaaS should land between them.

Model Context Protocol
AI agents
self-hosting
PaaS
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One Config Field, 12,000 Exposed Boxes: What Flowise's CustomMCP RCE Teaches Anyone Exposing Agent Tools
·Dora Noda·10 min

One Config Field, 12,000 Exposed Boxes: What Flowise's CustomMCP RCE Teaches Anyone Exposing Agent Tools

Flowise's CustomMCP node turned a config string into remote code execution on 12,000+ internet-exposed instances. The anatomy of CVE-2025-59528, the sibling CVEs proving it is a pattern, and a six-rule checklist for anyone running an MCP or agent-tool surface.

security
AI agents
Model Context Protocol
self-hosting
Shipping a Deploy-Authority MCP Server on Golf: What the Framework Owns and What You Still Build
·Dora Noda·10 min

Shipping a Deploy-Authority MCP Server on Golf: What the Framework Owns and What You Still Build

Golf, a production MCP server framework on FastMCP 4.0, owns auth, telemetry, and transport so you write only agent logic. Here is the exact framework-vs-platform split for an MCP server that deploys to production — plus the credential scoping, deploy API, and audit log no framework builds for you.

AI agents
Model Context Protocol
self-hosting
PaaS
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Hoplite and the Cloud Coding-Agent Wave: What You're Really Renting When Your Agent Setup Moves Off Your Laptop
·Dora Noda·13 min

Hoplite and the Cloud Coding-Agent Wave: What You're Really Renting When Your Agent Setup Moves Off Your Laptop

Hoplite moves your coding-agent setup — sessions, memories, MCP servers — onto rented cloud sandboxes for $99/seat. A bundle inventory, the lock-in shape, worked rent-vs-own math at 1/5/20 developers, and the five-component self-hosted equivalent.

AI agents
self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
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Kagent Brings CRD-Native AI Agents to Kubernetes: What It Means for a Self-Hosted PaaS
·Dora Noda·9 min

Kagent Brings CRD-Native AI Agents to Kubernetes: What It Means for a Self-Hosted PaaS

Kagent turns AI agents into Kubernetes objects you version, roll out, and inspect with kubectl. Here is what the Agent CRD, MCP tool servers, and A2A teams replace on a self-hosted PaaS roadmap — and where the platform still owns the problem.

AI agents
Kubernetes
Model Context Protocol
PaaS
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30+ MCP CVEs in Two Months: What the Early-2026 Vulnerability Wave Means for Your Deploy MCP Server's Supply Chain
·Dora Noda·10 min

30+ MCP CVEs in Two Months: What the Early-2026 Vulnerability Wave Means for Your Deploy MCP Server's Supply Chain

More than 30 MCP CVEs landed in the first two months of 2026 — most in proxies, registries, and SDKs, not tool code. What the wave teaches teams shipping a deploy MCP server, and the seven-row supply-chain checklist that falls out of it.

Model Context Protocol
AI agents
security
self-hosting
MCP's 2026 Enterprise-Readiness Push: Audit Trails, SSO, and Gateway Patterns for Agent Infrastructure You'd Otherwise Build Yourself
·Dora Noda·9 min

MCP's 2026 Enterprise-Readiness Push: Audit Trails, SSO, and Gateway Patterns for Agent Infrastructure You'd Otherwise Build Yourself

MCP hit 97M monthly downloads while shipping without a governance story. What the July 2026 spec hardened, what a production gateway must still add, and what vendors charge for.

Model Context Protocol
AI agents
Enterprise AI
security
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MCP Joins the Linux Foundation: What Neutral Governance and Server Cards Mean for Shipping a Deploy Server Today
·Dora Noda·10 min

MCP Joins the Linux Foundation: What Neutral Governance and Server Cards Mean for Shipping a Deploy Server Today

MCP is now neutral Linux Foundation infrastructure with 97M monthly SDK downloads — here is why that plus the stateless 2026-07-28 spec means you should ship your deploy-from-chat MCP server now, and treat Server Cards as a distribution upgrade, not a blocker.

AI agents
Model Context Protocol
PaaS
developer tools
MCP Multi-Round Trips: Human Approval Gates for Agent-Initiated Production Deploys
·Dora Noda·11 min

MCP Multi-Round Trips: Human Approval Gates for Agent-Initiated Production Deploys

MCP's July 2026 release lets a server pause mid-call and ask a human to approve the exact plan before acting. Here is the four-step deploy gate — plan, digest-bound approval, single-use execution, auditable receipt — that replaces standing agent permission.

Model Context Protocol
AI agents
security
self-hosting
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