Tools & MCP Articles
5 articles
The Tool Explosion: Managing 50+ Agent Tools Without Losing Your Mind
As agents get more capable, tool sprawl becomes a real operational problem. Here's how to organize, test, and monitor function calling at scale before it breaks in production.
Stop Loading All Your MCP Tools at Once
Loading 50 MCP tools burns 72K tokens before your agent says a word. Progressive tool discovery fixes that: smaller context, sharper decisions, real code patterns.
MCP Apps: Build UIs That Render Inside AI Chat
MCP Apps let your tools return interactive HTML dashboards, forms, and visualizations that render inline in Claude, ChatGPT, and VS Code. Here's how to build them for your agent tools.
Build your first MCP server in 10 minutes
From zero to a working MCP server connected to Claude Desktop. We use the official TypeScript SDK so you can copy-paste a real, runnable example today — and we close with a preview of what shipping on Protobox will look like.
What is MCP, and why it matters now
MCP is the USB-C of AI tools — one spec, every client. Here is what it actually is, what changed in the last year, and why your integrations should target it.
MCP changelog and dev notes
Short, occasional updates on the MCP spec, new Protobox features, and patterns we've seen in production. No marketing fluff.
