Model Context Protocol (MCP) in 2026 — What It Solved, What It Didn't
Practical MCP: building an MCP server, integrating with Claude / Cursor, when MCP wins, and the security pitfalls of remote tool access.
Practical MCP: building an MCP server, integrating with Claude / Cursor, when MCP wins, and the security pitfalls of remote tool access.
Why an MCP server is now table stakes for SaaS distribution, what tools and resources to expose, OAuth patterns for hosted MCP, observability, and a complete working server in TypeScript.
How Claude Code Skills work, the SKILL.md format, when skills beat tools, multi-session workflows (writer/reviewer, fresh-context review), and the agentic coding patterns that ship real production code in 2026.
MCP from first principles — the protocol, transports (stdio, HTTP), tools/resources/prompts, why it works, and a concrete walkthrough of building an MCP server in Python and TypeScript.