#agents
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What is an MCP server? A practical guide
An MCP server exposes tools, resources, or prompts through a standard protocol so an AI application can discover and use external capabilities.
How to vet AI agent skills before installing them
Treat an AI agent skill as both an instruction package and a software dependency: inspect what it says, what it runs, what it can access, and how it updates.
How to add an MCP server to Claude Code safely
Add remote HTTP or local stdio MCP servers to Claude Code, choose the right scope, protect credentials, verify the connection, and test with least privilege.
AI agent skills vs. MCP servers: which should you build?
Use an agent skill to package reusable know-how and workflow instructions. Use an MCP server when an agent needs live, governed access to external data or actions.
Point your agent at the catalogue: the LLM Mart MCP server and API
The whole public catalogue is an MCP server and a REST API, so your agent can search skills, tools and slash-commands as native tools. Setup is one config block. Plus a private vault that carries your own prompts between machines.
The instruction file is the highest-leverage file in your repo
AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, copilot-instructions.md and .cursor/rules all solve the same problem. Most of them are written badly. Here's what changes agent behaviour and what's decoration.
Prompt injection is not an XSS problem
Sanitizing output protects your page. It does nothing for an agent that reads a poisoned README and then runs a command. A practical model of the threat, and what actually helps.
Prompt, skill, workflow, recipe, template, agent: a working taxonomy
The words are used interchangeably and they shouldn't be. Six categories, what actually distinguishes them, and how to tell which one you're holding.