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Production-Ready MCP: Why Security Standards Matter for AI Tool Infrastructure

After eight years building authentication systems at Okta, followed by stints at Kong and ngrok working on developer tools and API gateways, I've seen how to build systems that are secure by default. Now at Arcade.dev, I'm watching the MCP ecosystem struggle to get there. The Model Context Protocol has incredible potential for enabling AI agents to interact with real-world systems. But there's a gap between experimental implementations and production-ready infrastructure that most developers ar

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The Agent Hierarchy of Needs: Why Your AI Can't Actually Do Anything (Yet)

Your AI can summarize documents you feed it, answer questions about your uploaded PDFs, and explain concepts from its training data. But ask it to pull your actual Q4 revenue from NetSuite, check real customer satisfaction scores, or update a deal in Salesforce? Suddenly it's just guessing—or worse, hallucinating numbers that sound plausible but aren't your data. This disconnect between AI's intelligence and its ability to access real data and take action is why less than 30% of AI projects hav

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We Just Won "Overall Authentication Solution of the Year" — Here's Why It Matters for AI Builders

Arcade.dev just took home "Overall Authentication Solution of the Year" in the 8th Annual AI Breakthrough Awards. And before you roll your eyes at another tech award announcement, let me explain why this actually matters for anyone building AI agents that need to do real work. The Problem We All Keep Hitting You know that moment when your perfectly crafted AI agent suggests "I'll schedule that meeting for you" — and then... doesn't? Because it can't? Yeah, that's the wall everyone's been hit

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How to choose the best Agentic Framework, Part 2: Agentic Delegation

In the previous post in this series, we explored Human-in-the-Loop. Here, we’re exploring Handoffs, which I prefer to call “Agentic Delegation” This post is a companion to a video, I encourage you to watch it! Here’s the experiment setup I’m using the same agentic system. I implemented the same system using three different Frameworks: * LangGraph * OpenAI’s Agents SDK * Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) In all cases, the agent uses a “supervisor” architecture, where a single agent re

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The Day an AI Agent Merged Malicious Code (And What We Learned)

Yesterday started like any other day. Coffee, standup, code review. Then I heard about an incident that made me put down everything. An organization's AI agent had been compromised. Not through some exotic zero-day or sophisticated attack vector. No, this was far more elegant—and terrifying. Their LLM-powered browser agent had autonomously merged a malicious pull request on GitHub. As a real employee. With real permissions. The attack vector? A carefully crafted email sitting in the user's inb

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We Need to Stop Calling RAG Systems 'Agents'

I'm going to say what everyone's thinking: if your system just searches documents and paraphrases results, it's not an agent. It's a search engine with a natural language interface. You've traded precision for generalization and gained the thrilling possibility of hallucinations. But there's no agency, no autonomy, no ability to actually do anything beyond return text that might not even be right. Don't get me wrong—I've built plenty of RAG systems. Hell, I've got a dozen still running in prod
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