MCP Configuration and Design Decisions

<p>If you've been using AI coding agents like Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex CLI, or Cursor, you've probably seen people talking about "skills" — packaged instructions that make

<p>MCP is one of the most thoughtfully scoped technical standards to come out of the AI ecosystem. That scope is intentional. Understanding exactly where MCP stops is the

<p>Salesforce just flipped a switch at TDX 2026 that matters more than most announcements in recent memory: your Salesforce org is now an MCP server. Every Developer Edition org

<p>A few weeks ago I wrote about <a href="https://debbie.codes/blog/ai-agents-mcp-automate-content" rel="noopener noreferrer">how I use AI agents and MCP to automate my website's

<h2> The Problem </h2> <p>The MCP ecosystem is expanding at an extraordinary pace. Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, AWS, and Cloudflare are all publishing official MCP servers.

<p>If you’ve browsed agent engineering discussions recently, you’ve seen the same hype everywhere: MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the new standard for AI agents. Every new

<p>The AI world has a plumbing problem. We have incredible language models, but connecting them to real tools — databases, APIs, file systems, other agents — still feels like

<p>REST APIs gave humans (and the code they wrote) a standardized way to access software over the network.</p> <p>MCP is trying to do the same thing for agents.</p> <p>That simple