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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Anthropic's "USB-C interface for AI applications." This article explains the host/client/server model, resources/tools/prompts, and JSON-RPC, then builds a TypeScript MCP Server for Claude Code from scratch.
After a user confirms a high-risk action once, repeated clicks, queue re-sends, and parameter substitution can all reuse the approval. This article closes those windows with a canonical action digest, one-time consumption, state versions, and idempotent execution.
The most common problem in multi-agent systems isn't model capability, but incomplete inputs, unclear responsibility, and unverifiable results after task delegation. This article covers delegation contracts, result schemas, budget propagation, and recovery mechanisms.
The previous article covered the MCP protocol; this one is hands-on. Build a production-ready MCP Server from scratch: pick a scenario, use the official SDK to implement resources and tools, deploy locally via stdio or remotely via HTTP, debug with MCP Inspector, then wire it into Claude Code and Cursor.
Technical trends, engineering practices, and an independent developer perspective on MCP and AI Agents.
Technical trends, engineering practices, and an independent developer perspective on MCP and AI Agents.
Human confirmation is not a simple "continue?" button. This article explains the action summary, scope, expiry, permission re-check, and audit fields that an Agent write-operation approval should contain, to prevent confirmation from being misused.
After the initial request times out, the tool may still be running server-side; issuing a cancel does not mean the side effects have stopped. This article establishes an operation identity, polling watermark, cancellation race handling, and a single terminal-state acceptance point for a single long-running tool call.
An agent should not hold a master credential covering an entire session. This article designs short-lived capability leases issued by a policy broker, binding tools, resources, call counts, executor keys, and a revocation epoch.
A successfully fetched tool list does not mean the Agent sees a complete and still-authorized capability set. This article combines paginated discovery, descriptor validation, policy filtering, and invocation binding into a versioned catalog generation that blocks half-loaded catalogs and late-arriving changes from reaching the execution plane.
A successful tool call does not mean the returned content is trustworthy. This article designs a bounded response envelope, strict JSON Schema, typed fact extraction, HTML and URL sanitization, malicious fixture testing, and per-tool isolated rollback.
MCP Server audit logs need more than a one-line success or failure entry. This article covers call correlation IDs, authorization decisions, input/output summaries, sensitive-field redaction, retention policies, and event queries that provide an evidence trail for security and troubleshooting.