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The protocol your agent's tools speak has a cost the usual API debate ignores: the tokens each schema burns inside the model's context. A 2026 decision guide across REST, GraphQL and gRPC, with token math, latency
Teams want AI coding agents without betting on one vendor. This 2026 guide shows the harness pattern across Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and Copilot: what to standardize, the portability seams, and where costs
MCP's 2026-07-28 release candidate makes Tasks an official extension for long-running work. How a server returns a task handle and a client drives it with tasks/get, tasks/update and tasks/cancel.
On 7 July 2026 Google expanded Managed Agents in the Gemini API with background execution, remote MCP servers, custom functions and credential refresh. Here is what each feature does at the API level, working code
The x402 protocol and Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway let APIs, SaaS and publishers charge AI agents per request in stablecoins. A 2026 guide to pricing models, setup, the HTTP 402 flow, and when to charge, block
OpenAI's Secure MCP Tunnel lets ChatGPT, Codex and the Responses API reach a private or on-prem MCP server over an outbound-only HTTPS path, with no inbound ports. How it works, how to set it up, and how to harden it.
GitHub made the Copilot SDK generally available on June 2, 2026, across six languages. This guide covers what it does, how to call it, how it compares to building your own agent loop, and what it costs to run.
Since the April 2026 update, Copilot agents in Visual Studio automatically discover skills from six directories, three of which live inside the repository. Microsoft shipped a trust dialog for MCP servers in June. Agent
MCP Apps shipped on 26 January 2026 as the first official MCP extension. Here is how the ui:// resource, the _meta.ui.resourceUri link, the sandbox CSP and the stateless 2026-07-28 core fit together.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is AWS's platform for production AI agents. Its Web Search tool reached GA on 17 June 2026 at $7 per 1,000 queries. Build a cited, web-grounded agent over MCP, with code and pricing.
MCP connects AI agents to your internal systems, and 78% of enterprise teams already run it. But 43% of public servers had command-injection flaws. What a production-grade custom MCP server needs in 2026, and how
The 2026-07-28 MCP revision removes the initialize handshake and the protocol-level session, so any instance can serve any request. The maintainers say nothing switches off on 28 July.
MCP's 2026-07-28 spec is the largest revision since launch and it breaks things: the initialize handshake and Mcp-Session-Id are gone. Three ways to expose legacy systems to AI agents, and what each actually costs.
Eleven CVEs landed against Model Context Protocol implementations in April 2026, and Anthropic called the underlying STDIO behaviour expected. Here is what that means for anyone running MCP servers in production
Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.1 on July 9, 2026, a 1M-token agentic model priced at a quarter of rival rates. It leads on tool use but trails on raw coding. What that means for how dev teams route work.
Angular v21 ships zoneless change detection by default, experimental Signal Forms, Vitest as the default test runner, and a built-in MCP server for AI coding. A developer's guide to the features and a safe upgrade
The average enterprise runs 12 AI agents in 2026 and IBM expects over 1,600 per large company by year-end, yet only 18% keep a complete inventory. A practical guide to governing multi-agent sprawl.
