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Tools
Developer tooling, agents, evaluation, gateways and the software stack around generative AI, tested and compared.
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Model Context Protocol: the definitive guide to how MCP works in 2026
A spec-level reference to MCP: history and governance, every revision up to 2026-07-28, the stateless request model, each primitive, transports, extensions, SDK tiers and the limits.
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MCP security and authentication: how the OAuth flow works and where attacks land
MCP security under the 2026-07-28 spec: how OAuth 2.1 authentication works step by step, the attacks it does not stop, and a hardening checklist for teams.
Comparison
OpenRouter alternatives in 2026: where teams go after a hosted aggregator
Seven OpenRouter alternatives ranked for October 2026: why teams leave a hosted aggregator, what OpenRouter still does well, and where self-hosting pays off.
Explainer
Slack MCP server: the definitive guide to tools, setup and security
Slack's hosted MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and coding agents search, read and post in Slack as the signed-in user. Tools, scopes, setup, rate limits, risks and governance.
Comparison
Top 10 AI guardrails tools in 2026, ranked by where they enforce
AI guardrails compared for October 2026: gateway, in-app library, classifier model or cloud API. Ten LLM guardrails tools ranked on checks, latency and cost.
Comparison
Top 5 AI gateways for air-gapped and in-VPC LLM deployments in 2026
Five self-hosted gateways compared for on premise LLM stacks: offline installs, outbound defaults, private model endpoints, secret stores and audit evidence.
Explainer
What is an MCP server? Meaning, anatomy and how to vet one
An MCP server is the program that hands an AI app its tools, resources and prompts. What it is and is not, stdio versus HTTP, a working server in TypeScript and Python, and the trust checks.
Comparison
Top 5 AI gateways for failover across Bedrock, Vertex AI and Azure OpenAI in 2026
Bedrock quotas, Vertex AI 429s and Azure OpenAI TPM caps all throttle the same models. Five gateways ranked on how they fail over across the three clouds.
Comparison
Top 5 AI gateways for Claude Code, Codex CLI and Cursor in 2026
Five AI gateways ranked as a Claude Code proxy and Codex or Cursor endpoint, on per-developer keys, budgets, model swapping, MCP tools and loop limits.
Explainer
What is MCP? A practical guide to connecting AI apps to your tools
MCP is the open protocol that lets Claude, VS Code and Cursor call your files, repos and SaaS tools. What it is, why it exists, and the exact config to connect your first servers safely.
Comparison
Top 5 AI gateways for multimodal workloads in 2026
Five AI gateways ranked on multimodal LLM traffic: which proxy speech, transcription, images, realtime audio and batch, and how they cache, meter and fail over.
Comparison
Top 5 AI gateways for Anthropic, OpenAI and Gemini in 2026
An LLM router for OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini must translate three API dialects. Five gateways ranked on native SDKs, reasoning, caching and failover.
