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articleRaindrop7 Aug 2026

MCPs need to be designed too

Our MCP tools were fine in isolation, but nothing chained, so conversations came back fragmented. Rebuilding them as a hierarchy cut cost 12% and time to final answer 27%.

Jackson Ferrigno
raindrop.ai
articleSimon Willison’s Weblog31 Jul 2026

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)

Tuesday was Stateless MCP day—the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant …

Simon Willison
simonwillison.net
articleMario Zechner2 Nov 2025

What if you don't need MCP at all?

Got Bash and some code interpreter? Skip MCP.

Mario Zechner
mariozechner.at

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