Build your first AI agent: what actually makes one work
Build your first AI agent: the reason-act-observe loop, choosing between sequential, reactive and planning shapes, and the ADK LoopAgent trap that burns tokens.
Build an MCP server for your Google ADK agent, and when not to
How to build an MCP server for an ADK agent: McpToolset, FunctionTool schema generation, the stdout trap, and writing tool docstrings a model can use.
MCP vs API: what actually breaks when a model is the client
MCP vs API is the wrong framing. See what really breaks when a model calls your REST API, the tool-wrapping trap, and the threshold where MCP pays off.
How Model Context Protocol (MCP) actually works
How the Model Context Protocol actually works: the three parties, what a server exposes, and the 2026 revision that made MCP stateless and dated most guides.
Connecting your database to Claude or ChatGPT without handing over the keys
Connecting a database to an LLM with one broad key is a breach waiting to happen. Learn how to build a custom MCP server with real, scoped authorization.
Your RAG chatbot is confidently wrong. The retrieval is why.
When a RAG chatbot answers wrong, the model is rarely the problem. Learn the four retrieval failures behind confident wrong answers and how to fix them in order.
Your automation fails silently and you find out from a customer
No-code automations fail quietly and stay broken until a customer complains. Learn the reliability layer that catches failures before anyone outside notices.
The Zapier bill is not the problem. The 40-step scenario is.
The real reason to move a workflow off no-code is not the bill. Learn the signals it has outgrown Zapier, and the surgical fix that beats a full rebuild.
Nobody told you the agent would cost that much
AI agent costs multiply in ways per-request pricing never warns you about. Learn where the spend hides and the controls that keep it bounded and predictable.
Prompt injection is not a prompt problem
Editing the system prompt will not stop prompt injection. Learn why it is an architecture problem and the design patterns that actually contain it in production.