mcp

MCP in 2026: Remote MCP, Managed Agents, and What Actually Changed

MCP is consolidating into the default way AI agents talk to tools. Here's a current explainer on what remote MCP means, the stateless-session change that landed in 2026, and how Gemini's managed agents put remote MCP and background tasks into production.

07/21/2026 · Industry Trends · 8 min read

AI Agent Skills, Explained: Skill Servers, Sandboxed Tool Orchestration, and Portable Capabilities

Skills are becoming the portable, shareable unit of agent capability. Here's what an AI agent skill actually is, how it differs from a tool or an MCP server, and how teams share them.

07/14/2026 · AI Tutorials · 8 min read

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