mcp

Managed Agents in 2026: Gemini API, Remote MCP, and Background Tasks

The managed-agent layer matured in July 2026 — background tasks and remote MCP make "the platform runs your agent" real. Here's what changed and when managed beats self-hosting.

07/11/2026 · Industry Trends · 10 min read

Remote MCP and Managed Agents, Explained: How the MCP-as-Infrastructure Stack Works

Remote MCP just turned the Model Context Protocol from a local desktop feature into an infrastructure category. Here's what remote MCP and managed agents mean, and when to host vs. run local.

07/09/2026 · AI Tutorials · 8 min read

Remote MCP and the Rise of Hosted MCP Servers

Remote MCP is moving the Model Context Protocol from local stdio to the cloud. Here's what remote MCP is, how hosted MCP servers work, and why Google shipping remote MCP the same week a YC startup launched “MCP Cloud” matters.

07/08/2026 · Industry Trends · 7 min read

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

A2A Protocol Explained: How Agents Talk to Other Agents

A live community thread asking "is anyone using A2A?" shows builders are still orienting in the agent-protocol landscape. Here's a vendor-neutral explainer of what the A2A protocol is, the problem it solves, and how it fits alongside MCP — grounded in the official spec.

06/21/2026 · Research · 8 min read

The A2A Protocol Explained: How Agent-to-Agent Interoperability Actually Works

A practitioner-grade guide to the A2A protocol explained from the ground up — what Agent2Agent is, how Agent Cards and JSON-RPC let agents from different vendors talk, how A2A differs from MCP, and whether adoption is real yet.

06/20/2026 · AI Tutorials · 9 min read