How MCP works

The protocol underneath all of this: tool discovery, authorization, credentials, and the parts of the specification that are still moving.

Oct 9, 2026 8 min read

Enterprise MCP: a buyer's guide for IT teams

Enterprise MCP for buyers: what changes when MCP goes from one laptop to a whole company, and what to ask a vendor before you sign.

Roopendra Talekar

Oct 5, 2026 8 min read

MCP for coding agents across an engineering org

MCP for coding agents needs one endpoint, a sign-in per engineer, and rules the agent cannot edit, because nobody reads each call it makes.

Roopendra Talekar

Oct 5, 2026 12 min read

What is an MCP control plane, and who needs one?

An MCP control plane is one org-wide MCP endpoint that serves the tools, signs each person in and decides access on every call.

Roopendra Talekar

Sep 25, 2026 9 min read

How MCP tool search picks one tool from hundreds

MCP tool search in Elaichi scores tools by matching words, then returns nothing unless a tool covers at least half the query, with rare words weighted most.

Raajshekhar Rajan

Sep 22, 2026 7 min read

The MCP context window problem, and a fix

The MCP context window problem: each listed tool sits in the model's prompt on every turn. Elaichi lists no connected tools; the model searches for them.

Uday Gajavalli

Sep 18, 2026 12 min read

What is an MCP gateway? The four shapes

What is an MCP gateway: one address between AI clients and their tools that signs people in, applies rules and records calls. It comes in four shapes.

Nachi Raman

Sep 17, 2026 9 min read

MCP server registry vs first-party connectors

MCP server registry vs first-party connectors comes down to who fixes a broken tool: each server's own author, or one vendor that wrote and serves them.

Roopendra Talekar

Sep 16, 2026 12 min read

OAuth or API keys for AI agents?

Choosing OAuth or API keys for AI agents comes down to revocation: a grant is checked on every call, while a key works until someone rotates it.

Roopendra Talekar

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