I spent a weekend connecting every MCP server that sounded useful. By Sunday night I had 11 running, a claude_desktop_config.json that scrolled off the screen, and an agent that was technically capable of doing almost anything. In practice, it was doing almost nothing useful. What I learned had very little to do with which servers are "good." The MCP ecosystem has exploded. There are directories w
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
In Q3 2024, our 12-person platform team slashed log ingestion spend by 35% in 90 days, moving from a brittle Elasticsearch-based pipeline to a tuned Vector 0.30 and Loki 3.0 stack—without losing a single log or breaking our 99.95% SLA. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (279 points) Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym (144 points) Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test (15
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
We Cut Compliance Costs by 40% Using Pulumi 3.140 and Chef 18 for Multi-Cloud AWS and GCP Modern multi-cloud environments offer unmatched flexibility, but they also introduce complex compliance challenges. For our team managing hybrid infrastructure across AWS and GCP, manual policy enforcement and fragmented tooling were driving up compliance costs by 22% year-over-year. By integrating Pulumi 3
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