5 posts tagged with "Tool"

You want your AI agent to query your database, check GitHub PRs, or search Notion docs. Until recently that required a custom integration for every model/tool pair — the classic N×M problem.

Enter the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Introduced by Anthropic in late 2024, MCP is an open standard built on JSON-RPC 2.0 that acts as a universal connector between AI assistants and external data or tools.

In this post, we skip the SDK and build an MCP server from scratch in Go — reading raw JSON-RPC payloads from stdin and writing responses to stdout. This forces you to understand exactly what the protocol requires.

Google just released Gemma 4 — a family of open-weight models with multimodal input, 256K context, native function calling, and a built-in "thinking mode". Here's everything you need to know, plus a step-by-step guide to running it on your own machine.

Paperclip is an open-source framework that lets you run a team of AI agents like a business — with an org chart, goals, budgets, governance, and a full audit trail. Here's what it is, how it works, and how to set it up.

Automate cloning, checking out, and pulling multiple Git repositories at once using simple bash scripts — plus auto-generating a Maven parent POM for Java projects.

A guide to setting up a modern terminal-based development environment with Neovim (LazyVim) and Tmux — from installation to configuration.