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November 10, 2026

MCP server hosting: how to run MCP servers for a team

An MCP server is a process. The Model Context Protocol defines how a client discovers and calls tools on that process, but it says nothing about where the process runs …

November 09, 2026

Why skills need the same governance as MCP servers

A knowledge worker on a claims-processing team finds a skill a colleague mentioned in passing. It promises to reformat intake forms automatically. She drops it into the AI assistant she …

November 05, 2026

MCP Gateway vs. LLM Gateway: The Two Control Points Every Enterprise AI Deployment Needs

An MCP gateway controls what AI agents can access in your systems (tools, data, APIs). An LLM gateway controls what leaves your agents for the model (prompts, context, and the …

November 05, 2026

What Is Agent Identity? Why AI Agents Break the Human-vs-Service-Account Model

Get ready, this is a mouthful. Agent identity is a distinct, per-instance identity for each running AI agent, tied to the agent definition that created it, chained to the human …

November 05, 2026

What Guardrails Should You Put Around AI Agents? Three Control Points for Enterprise Teams

Enterprise AI agents need guardrails at three control points: (1) a governed gateway between agents and your data, (2) a gateway between the agent and the model it calls, and …

November 05, 2026

Why Structural Debt Won’t Get Cheaper in Production: Platform Foundations in the Age of AI

Does generative AI make technical debt cheaper to pay down? For feature-level debt, probably yes. For structural debt in production systems (the security posture, the operational model, the recovery story) …