articleblog.val.town2 Sept 2026
Connecting every app to every other app
DCR and CIMD are solving OAuth's n² problem
Steve Krouse
blog.val.town
Model Context Protocol
Specification and documentation for the Model Context Protocol
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X introduces Ads MCP: create and manage ads on X with AI connectors
Advertisers can now create, edit and optimize ads from the AI tools they already use X has launched X Ads MCP (Model Context Protocol), a new capability that enables advertisers to create,…
Business@XBusiness
x.com
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
announcementAnthropic18 Jun 2026
Centrally manage authorization for MCP connectors
Admins can now provision MCP connectors for their whole organization through their identity provider, starting with Okta. Users get connector access automatically on first login, with authorization configured centrally by their organization.
claude.com
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
