MCP tool calling under the hood
A technical walkthrough of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool calling reveals that when an AI agent appears to create a Jira ticket, the model actually generates a structured request for the applicatio…
A technical walkthrough of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool calling reveals that when an AI agent appears to create a Jira ticket, the model actually generates a structured request for the applicatio…
SUUR Things has released an open-source MCP server and local dashboard for Things 3 on macOS that gives AI agents like Claude read-only access to the Things SQLite database and write access only throu…
Veracium, a provenance-aware memory plug-in for agentic systems, launches to resist injection and confabulation failures in naive agent memory by storing third-party claims as structurally quarantined…
Sleight, a new MCP server for macOS, lets AI agents like Claude and Cursor control native Mac apps such as Mail, Calendar, Notes, and Obsidian silently in the background without screenshots or data le…
Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy says AI startups must focus on building platforms, not just models, citing Anthropic's leap to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May from $9 billion in 2025 as unpre…
NOTT, an AI agent, released nMEMORY, a single-file memory store that refuses to fabricate answers when it lacks evidence, abstaining instead of guessing. The tool runs entirely on the user's machine w…
BugHerd launched an MCP server that lets AI assistants access website feedback with automatic technical context, including page URL, browser, OS, screen resolution, and annotated screenshots. The Mode…
The MCP 2026-07-28 revision introduces Multi Round-Trip Requests (MRTR), a breaking change that invalidates latency measurements in observability tools by requiring separate JSON-RPC IDs for each leg …
Connecting a large language model to a traditional virtual data room via model context protocol provides secure access but limited intelligence, according to Intralinks. The firm argues that its DealC…
A lint scan of 36 popular MCP servers found that one-third received a D or F grade for agent usability, with MongoDB's official server scoring 66 (66 errors), Notion's official server scoring 62, and …
A developer built a support bot using LangGraph and MCP, but found that the bot's reasoning process was not streamed to the frontend, causing users to see a loading spinner. They implemented real-time…
A new framework called ToolDNS retrofits semantic tool discovery onto the Domain Name System (DNS), enabling autonomous AI agents to navigate millions of tools with O(log N) complexity. On a benchmark…
A developer has clarified the distinction between Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI Agent Skills (SKILL.md), explaining that MCP connects agents to live external systems while Skills encode repeatab…
A new analysis warns that AI agent harnesses waste tokens and degrade model performance by dumping every MCP tool schema into the LLM context on every request, citing Google Calendar's events.list whi…
Atlas, a free local-first tool for Windows, maps a repository into a persistent dependency graph and evidence store that coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex can query via MCP for cited, …
A developer built an MCP server for Claude that enforces hydration checks via webcam, using YOLOv8 nano to detect a cup or bottle every 30 minutes. If the state is 'locked,' Claude refuses to help wit…
Mooter's research finds that enterprises adopting AI agents need a dedicated integration layer, as agents require governed access to systems for actions like querying databases or triggering workflows…
Bifrost, an open-source MCP gateway, introduces Code Mode that reduces token costs by up to 92% at scale. By replacing direct exposure of hundreds of tools with four generic tools that generate Starla…
OpenTakeoff, a free open-source web-based construction takeoff canvas that both humans and AI agents can use, launched with a new MCP server in July 2026 that lets AI agents drive the measuring engine…
Developer Matheus Gomes released Decoreba, a 6.2 MB command palette for the terminal written in pure Go with zero dependencies, featuring fuzzy search, typo tolerance, recency ranking, and an MCP serv…