MCP and Agent Tools
An agent is only as useful as the tools it can call. These posts cover the Model Context Protocol (MCP), tool and function calling, agent skills and plugins, and giving agents a computer or a browser to work in.
- MCP Doesn't Suck. Your Agent Does. - Jan Čurn, Apify
- Why 99% Accurate Browser Agents Still Fail - Derek Meegan, Browserbase
- 'Your Agents Are in Solitary Confinement: Why MCP & A2A Aren''t Enough - Vlad Luzin, Band'
- Realtime Voice Agents with Frontier Intelligence - Bohan Li, EliseAI
- Generative UI... in Python? - Jeremiah Lowin, Prefect
- One Designer + AI. Hundreds of Deliverables. - Vincent Wendy, AI Engineer
- ACP: The Universal Remote Control for AI Agents - Alex Hancock, Block
- MCP Apps: Give the Model Data, Give the User a UI - Dustin Mihalik, Indeed
- '500 Skills, Zero Fine-Tuning: LinkedIn''s Playbook for AI Agents - Ajay Prakash, LinkedIn'
- 'Build-Time vs. Run-Time: Why Dev Tools Fail in Production - Averi Kitsch & Prerna Kakkar, Google'
- Agent Spending Without Controls - Rodrigo Coelho & Pranav Maheshwari, Edge & Node
- 'The End of the Static Screen: Architecting Intent-Driven UX - Gus Iwanaga, commercetools'
- Multimodal Collaborative Agents for Next-Gen Commerce - Nidhi Kaushik Vyas, Google DeepMind
- x402 isn’t good (yet) - Jan Curn, Apify
- 'From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team - Clare Liguori, AWS'
- MCP Apps: Extending the Frontier - Ido Salomon & Liad Yosef
- 'MCP Tasks (async): Why Aren''t Any Agents Supporting Them? - Cornelia Davis, Temporal'
- You Didn't Ship a Bug. You Just Wrote It for a Human. - Ravi Madabhushi, Scalekit
- Modern Post-Training: A Deep Dive - Will Brown, Prime Intellect
- Claws Out: Securing and Building with OpenClaw - Nick Taylor, Pomerium
- 'From Writing Code to Designing Systems: How the Developer Role is Changing
- Building Great Agent Skills: The Missing Manual
- The Future Is Domain-Specific Agents - Justin Schroeder, StandardAgents
- Your Agent''s Biggest Lie: "I Searched the Web" - Rafael Levi, Bright Data
- The agent-ready web: Simplify user actions with WebMCP - Tara Agyemang, Google
- Why MCP and ChatGPT Apps Use Double Iframes - Frédéric Barthelet, Alpic
- Your Attention Is the Bottleneck, Not Your Agents - Zack Proser, WorkOS
- Building Interactive UIs in VS Code with MCP Apps — Marlene Mhangami & Liam Hampton, GitHub
- From MCP to Scale: Pipelines That Build Themselves — Rafael Levi, Bright Data
- Why Eval++ Is the Next Great Compute Primitive — Sunil Pai & Matt Carey, Cloudflare
- 'Building Agent Interfaces: Lessons from Chrome DevTools (MCP) for Agents — Michael Hablich, Google'
- 'Dark Factory: OpenClaw Ships Faster Than You Can Read the Diff — Vincent Koc, OpenClaw'
- Beyond Components: Designing Generative UI for MCP Apps — Ruben Casas, Postman
- What if the network was the sandbox? — Remy Guercio, Tailscale
- 'Engineering voice agents: Latency, quality, and scale — Rishabh Bhargava, Together AI'
- Bounded Autonomy: Between Free Will and Determinism - Angus J. McLean, Oliver
- How Google DeepMind Runs Agents at Scale - KP Sawhney & Ian Ballantyne, Google DeepMind
- Introducing WebMCP: Agents in the Browser — RL Nabors
- Cooking with Agents in VS Code — Liam Hampton, Microsoft
- 'From 46% to 90%: Fine-Tuning Tiny LLMs for On-Device Agents — Cormac Brick, Google'
- What Breaks When You Build AI Under Sovereignty Constraints - Bilge Yücel, deepset GmbH
- 'Beyond Code Coverage: Functionality Testing with Playwright MCP — Marlene Mhangami, Microsoft'
- Combine Skills and MCP to Close the Context Gap — Pedro Rodrigues, Supabase
- MCP UI: Extending the frontier — Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon, MCP Apps
- Skills at Scale — Nick Nisi and Zack Proser, WorkOS
- 'Demand-Driven Context: A Methodology for Coherent Knowledge Bases Through Agent Failure'
- 'Skill Issue: How We Used AI to Make Agents Actually Good at Supabase — Pedro Rodrigues, Supabase'
- MCP = Mega Context Problem - Matt Carey
- AI Mastery Hackathon - Sprints 0-2 Complete
- Remotion Agent Skills
- Claude code in Chrome
- Continual Learning in Claude Code
- SKILLS are king