The 2026 Connectivity Stack is a framework from the MCP team for how agents connect to external systems. The core claim: there is no single connectivity solution. The best agents in 2026 use three...
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Explorations of Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the open standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data sources. Covers implementation patterns, server architecture, and the emerging MCP ecosystem.
Skills over MCP is an upcoming extension to the Model Context Protocol that lets servers ship domain knowledge alongside tools — structured instructions that tell the model how to use the server's...
Progressive discovery is a client-side pattern for managing tool context in MCP-connected agents. Instead of loading every tool schema from every connected server into the model's context window at...
How to build your first MCP server is a practitioner's guide to creating a Model Context Protocol server that connects any data source or tool to Claude Code, Claude.ai, or any MCP-compatible AI...
AI memory systems are the tools and architectures that give Artificial Intelligence models persistent context across sessions — the ability to remember who you are, what you've worked on, and what...
MCP vs RAG is the most common confusion in AI knowledge architecture. Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solve different problems, operate at different layers, and...
MCP for personal knowledge systems is the practice of using the Model Context Protocol to connect a personal knowledge base — notes, memos, documents, research — to AI models as persistent,...
