MCP vs Skills: a practical decision guide for builders I need my agent to do X. Skill or MCP? If you build agents on Claude or anything MCP-compatible, this is the question that actually matters. The two patterns get pitched as alternatives. They are not. They solve different problems. Most production agents need both. Here is the decision rule, the framing for each, and the anti-patterns I keep
161 verified AI package hallucinations across 8.5M indexed — open dataset TL;DR: DepScope is a free MCP server + REST API that AI coding agents call before installing packages. We index 8.5M+ packages across 19 ecosystems and track 45K+ vulnerabilities in real time. We also publish a verified open corpus of LLM-hallucinated package names — every entry cross-validated daily, CC-BY-NC-SA. Cite us
What if managing your bookmarks felt like talking to a colleague? Not clicking through menus, not filling out forms, not dragging items between folders. Just saying what you want done. That's what prompt-based bookmark management looks like. LinkaGoGo connects to AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — giving your AI direct access to your bookmark
Originally published at curatedmcp.com/blog/week-2026-19 The MCP marketplace continues to expand with four new servers landing this week, reflecting a clear market demand for data accessibility and content safety. Week 19 brings tools spanning SEO analytics, conversational UI, marketing data aggregation, and threat detection—a diverse mix that signals the ecosystem is moving beyond developer-centr
Last Tuesday I lost about three hours to a regression in our checkout service. The cart total was off by a cent on certain promo combinations, and the only signal was a Slack ping from finance with a screenshot. No stack trace. No exception. Just wrong numbers. I did what I always do first. I opened the diff for the last deploy, scrolled, squinted, and tried to feel my way to the bug. Forty minute
Why Figma MCP Isn’t Enough Why Figma MCP Alone Can’t Guarantee Production-Ready UI — and What Product Teams Must Do Instead Extraordinary results require an extraordinary team. I’m surrounded by people who treat design and development like a mission. They are warriors in the tech trenches, and this win belongs to them. No fluff. No filler. Just the facts on how we shattered our veloci
If you've watched a junior pen-tester spend a Monday morning typing the same amass enum -passive -d $TARGET, subfinder -d $TARGET -silent, pipe to httpx, pipe to naabu, feed surviving hosts into nuclei, dump JSON The work isn't hard. The glue is. Every team I've talked to has rebuilt this This post is about a different shape of the problem: what happens when you MCP tools that an AI agent can call
I spent the long weekend pushing Logic Apps MCP server capabilities further than I had before — and hit two bugs worth documenting. Both are filed. If you're building in this space, save yourself the debugging time. If you've been following along, the MCP server and BODMAS Agent are covered in the previous posts. This post is just about what broke when I wired them together. The Agent Loop fails w