266 posts tagged with "Model Context Protocol"
Content about the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Your Deploy Agent Doesn't Need 100 Tools in Context: Progressive Discovery for Infrastructure MCP Servers
Connecting a deploy agent to a 100-tool MCP server eats the context window before any work starts. A three-tier catalog design keeps agents sharp, with the numbers and spec grounding to back it.
Your Deploy MCP Server Still Polls in a Loop. The August MCP Roadmap Wants to End That
MCP's August 2026 roadmap makes server-initiated events its top priority. Here is what push delivery changes for deploy-from-chat servers still polling task handles — and whether to build your own event layer now or wait for the standard.
MCP Goes Stateless: What Server Cards and A2A Mean for a Deploy-From-Chat Server
MCP's July 2026 spec deletes protocol sessions, adds Server Card discovery, and pairs with A2A for coordination. Here is how a deploy-from-chat server must redesign its tool contract: explicit handles, declared approval gates, and a Card strangers can trust.
Nixploy Put the MCP Server Inside the PaaS Process: What Deploy-via-MCP Gains (and Risks)
Nixploy serves its MCP endpoint from the same Node process as its dashboard, deploy queue, and API — one auth boundary, one audit log, no state drift. The concrete wins, the failure modes it inherits, and whether every self-hosted PaaS converges on MCP in the box.
MCP Won the Protocol War: Build-vs-Buy Math for Your Own Deploy MCP Server
OpenAI adopted rival Anthropic's MCP and the protocol now lives under the Linux Foundation, so the standards bet is settled. What remains is the build-vs-buy math for your own deploy and rollback MCP server, with real 2026 cost envelopes.
Running a Production MCP Server on Kubernetes: OAuth 2.0, Audit Logging, and the Enterprise Deployment Checklist
A ten-item production checklist for running a Model Context Protocol server on Kubernetes: Streamable HTTP transport, OAuth authorization with per-action token scopes, replayable audit logging, and cluster hardening — plus an honest comparison with hosted endpoints.
The Protocol Is Free, the Control Plane Isn't: What Qovery's MCP-for-Infra Play Shares — and Keeps
Qovery's agent Skill deploys new apps while its MCP server manages existing infrastructure — and the protocol behind both is free. A row-by-row verdict on which parts of MCP-for-infra any self-hosted PaaS shares, and which parts only the rented control plane keeps.
Railway Put Deploys Inside ChatGPT and Grok: The 7 API Primitives Chat-as-Console Actually Needs From a Render-Compatible API
Railway spent six weeks putting deploys inside ChatGPT and Grok. The plugins are just the surface — here is the seven-primitive API spec underneath them, and the guard checklist a self-hosted Render-compatible platform needs to copy.
A2A, WebMCP, and MCP: Three Agent Protocols, Three Layers, One Deploy Pipeline
MCP, A2A, and WebMCP each cover a different layer of the agent stack — tools, delegation, and the browser. Here is where a deploy-from-chat platform belongs on each layer, and which ones to ship, defer, or skip.