WorkBuddy MCP Setup: Connect Tools Without Handing an Agent the Whole Machine
A practical WorkBuddy MCP guide covering user and project configuration, permissions, credentials, testing, and failure recovery.
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OpenAI Opens the Codex Harness: Agents Move Beyond the Chat Box
OpenAI has opened the Codex harness, CLI, SDKs, and App Server. Here is why the architecture, ARC-AGI-3 result, and product boundaries matter beyond coding chat.
GitHub MCP Server Guide (2026): Setup, Toolsets & Security
Learn how to configure GitHub's official MCP Server with toolsets, read-only mode, OAuth, and lockdown controls for Copilot, Claude, and production coding agents.
Agent Plugins 1.0: Portable Coding-Agent Plugins Explained
Agent Plugins 1.0 explained: GitHub Copilot plugin structure, portability across VS Code and CLI, MCP and Skills differences, and testing limits.
DeepSeek Harness Multimodal Update: From rc.8 to v0.1.1-rc.2
DeepSeek Harness added native images, a vision model, Files API reuse, subagent bundles, and Windows PTY improvements from rc.8 through v0.1.1-rc.2.
SandBase CLI: One MCP Bridge for 25 AI Client Targets
Install the open-source SandBase CLI, connect Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and other AI clients, and expose six MCP tools for a catalog of 2,000+ models and APIs.
DeepSeek Harness (2026): Setup, Plugins & Production Limits
DeepSeek Harness setup and review: npx install, plugin architecture, API limits, and what is safe to test before production.
Agent Plugins: The Portable Plugin Standard Explained
Agent Plugins is a new open standard for portable AI agent plugin packages. One format, every client. Learn how plugin.json, skills, and MCP servers fit together.
Lovable: AI App Builder for MVPs (Honest Guide 2026)
Lovable generates full-stack React + Supabase apps from prompts. Pricing, credit system, real limits, and how it compares to Bolt, Cursor, and v0 in 2026.
Claude Code: The Terminal Coding Agent (2026 Guide)
Claude Code is Anthropic's terminal-native coding agent. This guide covers how it works, real usage patterns, costs, and when to use it in 2026.
MCP Protocol Explained: AI Agent Tool Standard
The MCP protocol gives AI agents a standard way to discover and call tools. How it works, how to build a server, and the ecosystem in 2026.
Best AI Coding Assistants 2026: Agents & Copilots Ranked
Ranked comparison of the 10 best AI coding assistants in 2026. Covers agents (Claude Code, OpenHands) and copilots (Cursor, Copilot) with pricing, benchmarks, and honest trade-offs.
Batch Image Generation Pipeline for Agents
Step-by-step tutorial for building a batch image generation pipeline — agent takes product descriptions, generates variants, scores them, picks the best. Python code with parallel generation, error handling, and cost tracking.
Cloudsway Search: Ranked Results + Summaries
Deep dive into Cloudsway Search on SandBase — ranked web search results with dynamic summaries for AI agents. Architecture, use cases, API usage, and comparison with semantic search approaches.
Cloudsway vs Exa: Which Search API for Your Agent
Detailed comparison of Cloudsway Search and Exa Search for AI agent workflows — ranked results vs semantic matching, when to use each, and how to combine them for maximum coverage.
Social Data API vs Web Scraping for Agents (2026)
A deep architectural comparison of structured API access vs web scraping for AI agents consuming social media data in 2026. When each wins, what breaks, and how to choose.
Why Sync-Only is the Right Default for Data APIs
An engineering opinion piece on why synchronous-only design is the correct default for data APIs serving AI agents. Trade-off analysis, architecture implications, and when async is actually necessary.
text-embedding-v4: Bilingual Embeddings for CJK
Deep dive into Alibaba's text-embedding-v4 — 8192 token context, CJK+English alignment, code-aware embeddings, architecture analysis, cost math, and real-world RAG scenarios with specific numbers.
Normalizing 571 APIs into One Agent Contract
Engineering deep-dive: how SandBase normalized 571 heterogeneous social media operations into a single /v1/run contract with naming rules, body wrapping, and fail-closed validation.
Best AI Search APIs 2026: Agent Workflow Comparison
Best AI search APIs for agent workflows in 2026: compare Exa, Tavily, Firecrawl, SerpAPI, Google, and Brave on search quality, crawling, cost, and developer fit.
Exa vs Tavily vs Firecrawl: Search APIs (2026)
A practical comparison of Exa Search, Tavily, Firecrawl, SerpAPI, and Google Custom Search for AI agent workflows in 2026.
30 Days to Make an AI Infrastructure Startup Discoverable
A practical recap of how SandBase used 30 days to build public presence, technical content, open-source assets, and the first search visibility baseline.
Warp Terminal 2.0: AI-Native IDE for Agents
Warp 2.0 explained - how it evolved from AI terminal to agentic development environment. Run Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI in parallel. Open-source in 2026.