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Security and privacy, in practice
I put an MCP server on the public internet so an AI client could file todos onto my private kanban board. The interesting part wasn't the protocol — it was making the dangerous call unrepresentable.
Building agents on the JVM with Embabel · Part 6
Turning my JVM agents into MCP tools took one dependency and one annotation. It also took three silent failures -- a starter that suppresses the web server, a shell that eats your CLI flags, and an annotation default that publishes exactly zero tools without telling you.
The Model Context Protocol, hands on
How I turned Apache Kafka into a set of tools an AI client can call — using Spring AI's MCP server, a handful of @Tool methods, and one ugly-but-necessary servlet filter.
The Model Context Protocol, hands on
Field notes from wiring Fastmail's MCP server into an AI client and pointing it at my real inbox — the search syntax worth memorising, plus the two gotchas (deferred schemas, and stage-vs-commit on calendar events) that cost me a few minutes.