Applied AI: MCP

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of October 16, 2026. You built an agent that can search your logs. It has one tool, query_logs , wired straight into your harness, and it works. Then the requests start. The platform team wants the same tool inside their IDE assistant. Support wants it in the company chat app. And your own agent now needs to read GitHub, file Jira tickets, and query Postgres. Each of those apps has its … Read More

Explained: Model Context Protocol (MCP)

You open your editor and ask the AI assistant why last night's build failed. A few seconds later it has pulled the CI logs, found the failing test, opened the commit that broke it, and checked whether anyone already filed a ticket. You never pasted a single log line into the chat. Not long ago, that kind of reach had to be built by hand. Someone wrote code that taught this particular assistant to talk to this particular CI system, then did it… Read More