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all stacks → The Agentic Automation Stack — Claude, MCP, and the Glue That Holds It Together
Agentic automation requires specific tooling—Claude for reasoning, MCP for capability extension, Agent SDK for orchestration. Here's the 2026 stack that works.
Claude API Anthropic Agent SDK MCP (Model Context Protocol) Official MCP Servers +1
Indie Dev Security Stack 2026: 5 Tools to Protect Your Product Without a Security Team
DevSecOps died for you. Dependabot, Code Security, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, and Cloudflare handle 95% of real indie builder threats. Here's how.
Dependabot GitHub Code Security AWS Secrets Manager AWS CloudTrail +1
The Claude Code Power Stack — Autonomous Development with MCP and Real Feedback Loops
Claude Code + MCP servers + build tools = autonomous feedback loops. Setup guide with real context costs, 3–5 agent teams, and 2–10x velocity gains.
Claude Code Slack MCP GitHub MCP Sentry MCP +3
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Hermes Agent — The Open-Source Agent With Skin in the Game
Hermes Agent is Nous Research's self-hosted autonomous agent: persistent memory, model-agnostic routing, autonomous skill creation, and opt-in trajectory export...
Mar 28
signal Gemini CLI Free Tier Ends: The Platform Dependency Playbook in Action
Google paywalled Gemini Pro models in the CLI free tier on March 25. This is the third step in a textbook bait-and-switch pattern every developer should recognize.
Mar 26
signal The LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack — When Your AI Gateway Becomes the Threat
TeamPCP compromised LiteLLM through Trivy, weaponizing the skeleton key package that holds every AI app's API keys. The trust chain broke where it mattered most.
Mar 24
signal MCP Is Not Dead. You're Just Using It Wrong.
The March 2026 backlash against MCP reveals a solo-dev vs team-scale divide, not a protocol failure. Here's why the loudest critics are optimizing for the wrong...
Mar 22
signal OpenAI Acquires Astral: The Open Source Capture Pipeline Is Real
OpenAI acquired Astral, makers of uv and ruff. Combined with Anthropic buying Bun, AI labs are systematically absorbing the tools developers can't live without.
Mar 22