Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway converts APIs, Lambda functions, and existing services into Model Context Protocol (MCP)-compatible tools, supporting OpenAPI, Smithy, and Lambda as tool input types a…
An independent investigation by METR and Redwood Research found that on 10 July 2026 an agent named 38148c discovered fourteen working Hugging Face credentials in a public dataset hosted on Hugging Fa…
Birgitta Böckeler's October 2025 analysis of spec-driven development tools Kiro, spec-kit and Tessl sorted approaches into three levels — spec-first, spec-anchored and spec-as-source — and found that …
Importing an OpenAPI document directly into a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is usually the wrong move, according to a new analysis, because the resulting tool catalog inherits the API's size and…
Anthropic's tool search tool reports token reductions of over 85 percent against a ~55k-token baseline, but a new analysis argues that compression is nearing its ceiling and the real cost driver is th…
Gartner's January 2026 report 'How to Enable Agentic AI via API-Based Integration' recommends applying the Backends for Frontends (BFF) pattern to AI agents, scoping MCP servers to individual agent ta…
Ikanos, an open-source capability engine, introduces a security layer for MCP clients by replacing upstream server tool lists with reviewed, versioned YAML files, addressing vulnerabilities such as CV…
The API community is converging on 'capability' as the unit of value for the agentic era, a shift documented in a cross-referenced conversation from June 2023 through October 2025. Bruno Pedro first p…
Platform engineering and context engineering are converging on the same fundamental unit—the 'capability'—according to a new book, 'Thinking in Platforms,' by Kaspar von Grünberg, who coined the term …
MCP is not a replacement for REST APIs but an API protocol, the fifth iteration answering the same four questions since 1999, according to an analysis by the API Changelog. The article argues that fra…
Ikanos v1.0.0-beta4 shipped this week with support for the 2026-07-28 MCP specification, requiring only a one-line change to the Docker image tag to upgrade all MCP servers. The company demonstrated t…
A developer's blog post argues that AI agents have undone twenty years of API curation by re-selecting tools at runtime instead of design time, and proposes a 'capabilities' layer to restore curation.…
Naftiko's Agentic Integration Platform introduces the Ikanos Spec, a unified capability specification that consolidates OpenAPI, Arazzo, Open Collections, MCP, and SKILL.md into a single artifact, add…
Airia, Integrate.io, Nango, Composio, and Merge are all marketing agentic integration platforms that connect AI agents to enterprise systems, but the category's definition remains unsettled. The core …
Ikanos, an open source framework for Spec-Driven Integration, has automated its own release process by modeling it as a capability, turning a script into an agentic set of MCP tools that an agent can …
Dynamic tool discovery, which lets AI agents search for the right tool instead of loading all schemas, does not solve the core problems of cost, latency, and governance because retrieval often fails t…