Finally got around to making my own landing page for The Book

AI Agents with MCP — Model Context Protocol for Building Clients, Services, and End-to-End Agents

Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol at the end of 2024, and it quickly became the standard way to turn a chatbot into an agent that can act, plan, and use tools on its own. This book goes …

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The MCP 2026-07-28 spec is final today, and v2 of the Python SDK has shipped with it. Congrats to the spec maintainers, SEP authors, and SDK teams - so much hard work went into maturing the protocol, and the SDK folks ran an epic marathon to keep everything in sync with the spec.

Today we're featuring Kyle on Sifa 📣 @kylestratis.com

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i want to spread the word about atproto. if you’re running a podcast, i’d be happy to hop in to talk about it. i understand it decently well and can explain it without much jargon. it’s one of the most interesting developments in the last 30 years of web, and i can defend that. please dm to set up!

Some Housekeeping Updates A short update on the blog

Thanks to @sequoia.pub my blog is now on the ATProto! Do I do the Ghost newsletter next?

Kyle@kylestratis.com · 7mo ago

A Better Practices Guide to Using Claude Code A comprehensive guide to getting the most out of Claude Code

One of the things I've been heads down on lately has been this AI companion for the book Becoming a Principle-Driven Leader by Charles and Chase Koch. I got to work on some interesting problems, develop techniques based on modern andragogy research, and deploy a multiagent system to the public.

Chase Koch on the Principles Companion App that Tribe AI Built | Tribe AI

Most AI is being built to think for you. This one was built to elevate your thinking. Koch, Inc. asked Tribe a different question than the one most companies are asking: could AI develop human judgme...

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I should be more active on this account, maybe when I’m not spending all my waking hours writing

What I think is the most important chapter of AI Agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP), and most difficult to research and write, is now available in early release. In chapter 7, you'll learn how to test, secure, and distribute your MCP servers.

I've finished the first draft of chapter 7 of AI Agents with MCP, which you should be able to see on @oreilly.bsky.social's learning platform either later this month or in March. Before edits, I've written just over 69,000 words, made 22 images, made ~227 physical pages (est), w/ 2 chapters to go

The piece for anyone interested andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-wat...

The AI water issue is fake

On the national, local, and personal level

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Code has never been worth much of anything by itself, though. patio11’s advice has been true my entire career. Companies aren’t going to stop needing the product cycle. They might need fewer people whose entire world is the computer, but the practice of making computers do stuff will persist.

i think the biggest issue where i split ethically in a meaningful way with people is that i have long been against intellectual property as a concept. i think IP helps disney, not small artists. a lot of people want to strengthen IP in response to ai stuff and i just don't think that's a good thing

This bout of mania (not really) also got me to write a new issue of The Signal Path, where I talk about the recent explosion in usage patterns for agent coding, memory agents like @void.comind.network, agent orchestration, and goings-on in the MCP world, including chapter 6 of my book going into ER

How to Wrangle Claude Code, New MCP Book Chapters, Agent Orchestration and More

I'm finally emerging (kind of) from the haze of the holidays, surgery recovery, and the entire household getting the flu with a bevy of news for you. We drove from Boston to Florida for the holidays t...

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The image of him fearfully at his door as a disgusting ice pig looms over him is heart rending and enraging.

SBOMfunk MC@fack.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I can't stop thinking about those pictures of Liam.

I wrote up an internal guide to Claude Code use, then I cleaned it up and made it public. It's wicked long, but use the TOC and use it more as a reference library than a singular article, and I think it should be really helpful!

A Better Practices Guide to Using Claude Code

A comprehensive guide to getting the most out of Claude Code

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A Better Practices Guide to Using Claude Code A comprehensive guide to getting the most out of Claude Code

Just got everything lined up to release `ed3d-plugins`, the Claude Code harness I use in my day-to-day. While they're yelling about gas towns, I present an e-bike, just don't drive it on the sidewalk. I'm biased, but I think it's good. I've tried a few similar, and I keep going back.

GitHub - ed3dai/ed3d-plugins

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It's Early Release Day! AI Agents with MCP just had a major release, with additional details added to all existing chapters, as well as the addition of Chapter 6, which covers advanced techniques for building MCP servers.

I’ve started doing this with simple games for my daughter. It’s really fun and I can quickly spin up simple educational word games at her level based on what she likes.

Luis Villa@lu.is · 7mo ago

I am reminded of Robin Sloan’s writing on “home cooked” software: www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...

I got inspired by @simonwillison.net's simple HTML tool workflow: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/... So I decided to spend a few minutes today to do something similar: tools.kylestratis.com

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to …

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Empire of AI is wildly misleading on AI water use - Andy Masley andymasley.substack.com/p/empire-of-ai… (worth reading the details) #AI #water

Empire of AI is wildly misleading on AI water use

I discovered at least one major error that gets a number off by 3 orders of magnitude

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Just presented this! You can check out the code here: (note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me. github.com/kylestratis/...

GitHub - kylestratis/vibedialer: A completely vibe coded Wardialer for the Practical Data Discord vibecoding hackathon

A completely vibe coded Wardialer for the Practical Data Discord vibecoding hackathon - kylestratis/vibedialer

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Kyle@kylestratis.com · 9mo ago

I have a toddler birthday party right now, and an adult birthday party at a brewery this afternoon, so I’m participating in @joereis.bsky.social’s Practical Data Discord vibe coding hackathon purely via mobile using Wispr Flow and @anthropic.com’s Claude Code web. This is wild.

I have a toddler birthday party right now, and an adult birthday party at a brewery this afternoon, so I’m participating in @joereis.bsky.social’s Practical Data Discord vibe coding hackathon purely via mobile using Wispr Flow and @anthropic.com’s Claude Code web. This is wild.

I’ve been writing about it for the past 6 months, I guess it makes sense to actually contribute to MCP too, making more work for myself:

Client notification support by kylestratis · Pull Request #1611 · modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk

This PR expands the universe of supported server notification types that a client can handle to include all existing types defined in types.py as well as any other type deriving from ServerNotifica...

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Apparently I’ve been consulting full(ish) time for a year now. I’ll have to write some thoughts on it soon but I still can’t see myself doing anything else (despite taking a halftime role with a client because I love what they’re building)

So apparently you *can* listen for notifications in the MCP SDK - both in servers and it looks like in clients too. I haven't tested the latter yet, but you better believe this is going in the book!

Things are getting really real now! My upcoming book, AI Agents with MCP, is now available on Amazon for preorder! Give me a fraction of the sale price, you know you want to!

AI Agents with MCP: Model Context Protocol for Building Clients, Services, and End-to-End Agents

Amazon.com: AI Agents with MCP: Model Context Protocol for Building Clients, Services, and End-to-End Agents: 9798341639553: Stratis, Kyle: Books

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MCP Colors A riff off of the lethal trifecta for addressing prompt injection, this is a simple heuristic to ensure security at runtime red = untrusted content blue = potentially critical actions An agent can't be allowed to do both timkellogg.me/blog/2025/11...

MCP Colors: Systematically deal with prompt injection risk

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Time to just sit through a panic attack while I wait for my first real workshop to start 🙃