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April 22, 2026

Stacklok and SUSE bring Linux infrastructure management to your AI agent

Managing Linux infrastructure at scale is hard enough without having to context-switch between your AI coding assistant and a web UI every time you need to check on a system. …

April 20, 2026

GitHub authorization for MCP servers

It’s easy to justify static credential configuration when an MCP server starts out as a one-user, one-server setup in a developer environment. But things quickly get complicated when that server …

April 06, 2026

MCP Optimizer is now built into the Stacklok platform

The MCP Optimizer is now built into vMCP, Stacklok’s multi-server gateway. Teams get 60–85% token reduction with no per-person setup required.

April 02, 2026

Tool annotations are becoming the risk vocabulary for agentic systems. That matters more than it might seem.

The MCP community dropped an update a couple weeks ago that I have been thinking about quite a bit: https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-03-16-tool-annotations/. It is an update on the state of tool annotations. …

March 30, 2026

MCP server authorization for downstream access

In enterprise MCP deployments, authentication and authorization at the MCP server don’t fully determine downstream authorization. The server still has to reach downstream systems with the right credential, the right …

March 16, 2026

Your AI agent doesn’t deserve root access

The power of coding agents is inseparable from risk. The question isn’t whether something will go wrong; it’s how far the damage can travel when it does. Here’s what you’ll …