The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the default standard for connecting AI agents to external tools and APIs. Governed by the Linux Foundation since early 2025 and adopted by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Vercel, MCP is the USB-C port of the AI ecosystem — one protocol that lets any LLM application talk to any tool server. But there's a gap between reading the spec and building somethi
If you have spent any real time with Claude Code, you have probably noticed the same problem I did. You write the same instructions in the prompt every other day. "Use four-space indentation here." "Always run the linter after edits." "Format commit messages this way." After the third or fourth repeat, it stops feeling like a prompt and starts feeling like missing config. Skills are how Claude Cod
In the previous parts, we explored SSL pinning across Android and iOS, including both certificate and public key approaches. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: Even perfectly implemented pinning is not enough. In this final part, we move beyond the client and look at what truly defines a secure mobile architecture: Mutual TLS (mTLS) Backend access control Defense in depth When mobile security act
The Work Is Too Specific for Enterprise Software Small and mid-sized teams run on operational content. A law firm receives NDAs, contracts, court filings, and client intake forms. A dental clinic handles referral letters, insurance documents, treatment plans, invoices, and patient forms. An accounting firm processes supplier invoices, receipts, bank statements, and monthly reports. A real estate
The Problem Changed The first version of Iteration Layer was written in TypeScript. That was the obvious choice at the time. The product looked like a normal web app with a normal API surface: accept a request, call a model or processing library, return a response. That shape did not last. Content-processing infrastructure does not behave like a CRUD app once people start using it for real work.
Adding email and calendar tools to an AI agent is mostly an exercise in restraint. Give it 50 commands and the agent gets confused. Give it 5 carefully-chosen ones and it punches above its weight. After running agents against the Nylas CLI for a few months, these are the five I keep coming back to. Each gets exposed via MCP (nylas mcp install) so the agent can call them directly. nylas email send
You ssh'd into a fresh Linux box and you need to send an email. Maybe a backup completed. Maybe a deploy succeeded. Maybe a process crashed and you want a stack trace in your inbox. The traditional path: install Postfix, edit main.cf, configure a smart relay, generate SASL credentials, restart the daemon, and pray nothing else on the box uses port 25. That is the 30-minute path. The 60-second path
Your password-reset flow needs an inbox to test against. Your invitation flow too. Your email-verification gate too. The classic setup is a "[email protected]" alias on a shared mailbox, polling Gmail's API, hoping nothing else lands while the test runs. It is fragile, it leaks state across PRs, and your credentials live in CI. A managed agent account flips this. Each PR gets a fresh inb