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What Is MCP Cloud? Hosting the Model Context Protocol in 2026

Self-hosting MCP servers is fiddly, and a new "MCP cloud" category is forming to fix that. Here's what MCP cloud actually means, when managed hosting beats doing it yourself, and how to get an MCP server running for your agents.

07/04/2026 · AI Tutorials · 8 min read

Are AI Agents Overhyped? A Data-Backed Reality Check for 2026

Zuckerberg says AI agents haven't moved as fast as he hoped, and the froth around AI IPOs is hard to ignore. Here's an honest look at where agents actually deliver in 2026 — and why execution, not intelligence, is the real gap.

07/04/2026 · Industry Trends · 9 min read

Agent Skills Best Practices: How to Structure Them (and the Mistakes to Avoid)

Most agent-skill failures aren't a model problem — they're a structure problem. Here are agent skills best practices: when to write a skill, how to scope and describe it, and how to benchmark whether it actually helps on your own tooling.

06/23/2026 · AI Tutorials · 9 min read

How to Run GLM-5.2 Locally: Setup, Hardware, and How It Stacks Up for Agents

GLM-5.2 is the strongest text-only open-weights LLM right now, and it's built for long-horizon agent work. Here's how to run GLM-5.2 locally, the hardware you actually need, and an honest read on whether it belongs in your agent stack.

06/23/2026 · AI Tutorials · 11 min read