When we wanted our boat agents to read SignalK — wind, position, battery, depth — over MCP, there was...
When we wanted our boat agents to read SignalK — wind, position, battery,
depth — over MCP, there was already a capable server for it:
VesselSense/signalk-mcp-server
(TypeScript, MIT). It's well built. Our prime directive says use existing
tools before building your own, and we take that seriously — our ship's log
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is how AI agents talk to tools. Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf — they...
We run a prime directive on this stack: if a usable tool already exists, improve it; build our own...
#45 | A deep dive into implementing Tools, Resources, Prompts, Roots in the MCP
A practical walkthrough of shipping an MCP server for a web analytics SaaS, the patterns that worked, and what surprised me.
An honest ranking of the ten MCP servers I built. Which three earn their slot in my config and which seven sit idle. The pattern…
Exposing a tool to an agent over MCP takes ten minutes. Building an MCP server that survives a model...
