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January 4th, 2026
858
5 mins
A Year with Cursor: How My Workflow Evolved from Agent to Architect
My journey with Cursor mirrors the maturation of the tool itself: from a simple agent to a sophisticated architectural partner. This post details how my workflow evolved through @ mentions, MCP, Plan Mode, and custom commands.
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December 26th, 2025
1577
4 mins
Context Graphs: My Thoughts on the Trillion Dollar Evolution of Agentic Infrastructure
Context Graphs
Agentic AI
Enterprise AI
MCP
Agent Skills
AI Infrastructure
Decision Traces
AI Governance
Systems of Record
After reading Jaya Gupta's post about Context Graphs, I have not been able to stop thinking about it. For me, it did something personal: it gave a name to the architectural pattern I have been circling around in the agentic infrastructure discussions on this blog for the past year. Gupta's thesis is simple but profound—the last generation of enterprise software created trillion dollar companies by becoming systems of record. The question now is whether a new layer will emerge on top of them: a system of record for decisions.
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December 23rd, 2025
746
5 mins
2025: The Year Agentic AI Got Real (What Comes Next)
Agentic AI
Enterprise AI
MCP
Agent Skills
AI Agents
AI Infrastructure
Multi-Agent Systems
AI Governance
Open Standards
2025 Review
If 2024 was the year of AI experimentation, 2025 was the year of industrialization. The speculative boom around generative AI has rapidly matured into the fastest-scaling software category in history, with autonomous agents moving from the lab to the core of enterprise operations.
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December 18th, 2025
561
5 mins
Agent Skills: The Missing Piece of the Enterprise AI Puzzle
AI Agents
Agent Skills
Enterprise AI
Anthropic
MCP
Agentic AI
AI Governance
Open Standards
AI Infrastructure
Agent Architecture
The enterprise AI landscape is at a critical juncture. We have powerful general-purpose models and a growing ecosystem of tools. But we are missing a crucial piece: a standardized, portable way to equip agents with the procedural knowledge and organizational context they need to perform real work.
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December 1st, 2025
210
10 mins
MCP Enterprise Readiness: How the 2025-11-25 Spec Closes the Production Gap
MCP
Enterprise AI
Agentic AI
Security
OAuth
Authentication
Infrastructure
Agent Ops
Governance
Enterprise Integration
The Model Context Protocol's first anniversary release isn't just a milestone—it's a strategic inflection point. With asynchronous Tasks, enterprise-grade OAuth, and a formal extensions framework, the 2025-11-25 spec directly addresses the operational barriers that have kept organizations from deploying agent-tool ecosystems at scale. This post examines how these new primitives transform MCP from a development convenience into production-grade infrastructure.
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November 20th, 2025
272
9 mins
The Governance Stack: Operationalizing AI Agent Governance at Enterprise Scale
AI
Agents
Agentic AI
Governance
Enterprise AI
Agent Ops
MCP
Security
Infrastructure
Compliance
AI Management
With 88% of organizations now deploying AI agents in production, governance has shifted from a theoretical concern to an operational imperative. Yet 40% of technology executives admit their governance programs are insufficient. This article presents the technical infrastructure—the 'governance stack'—required to transform governance frameworks from policy documents into automated, enforceable reality across the entire agentic workforce lifecycle.
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November 17th, 2025
7 mins
Why Private Registries are the Future of Enterprise Agentic Infrastructure
AI
Agents
Agentic AI
MCP
Agent Registry
Enterprise AI
Governance
Security
Infrastructure
Private Registry
AI Management
With 79% of companies already adopting AI agents, a critical governance gap has emerged. Without robust management frameworks, organizations risk a chaotic landscape of shadow AI, creating significant security vulnerabilities and operational inefficiencies. The solution lies in Private Agent and MCP Registries—command centers for agentic infrastructure that provide the visibility, governance, and security necessary to scale AI responsibly.
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November 14th, 2025
5 mins
From Espionage to Identity: Securing the Future of Agentic AI
AI
Security
Agentic AI
OIDC-A
MCP
Anthropic
Claude
Cybersecurity
AI Agents
Identity Management
Zero Trust
Anthropic has detailed its disruption of the first publicly reported cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by a sophisticated AI agent. The incident, attributed to state-sponsored group GTG-1002, signals that the age of autonomous, agentic AI threats is here. This post dissects the anatomy of the attack and explores how emerging standards like OpenID Connect for Agents (OIDC-A) provide a necessary path forward.
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October 30th, 2025
2090
7 mins
Claude Skills vs. MCP: A Tale of Two AI Customization Philosophies
Anthropic has introduced two powerful but distinct approaches to AI customization: Claude Skills and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). While both aim to make AI more useful and integrated into our workflows, they operate on fundamentally different principles. This post explores their differences, synergies, and the exciting future they represent.
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June 21st, 2025
330
3 mins
From Gateway to Guardian: The Evolution of MCP Security
While AWS's MCP Gateway solves operational challenges, production AI systems demand evolution from basic centralization to identity-aware security guardians that address the "lethal trifecta" of vulnerabilities in enterprise deployments.
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May 21st, 2025
1265
29 mins
Securing MCP with OIDC & OIDC-A: Identity-Aware API Gateways Beyond "Glorified API Calls"
Integrating OpenID Connect (OIDC) and the new OIDC-A agent extension with an identity-aware API gateway to securely authenticate users, LLM agents, and MCP tools—going far beyond basic API proxying.
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