Building MCP Servers in Production

Model Context Protocol is the cleanest interface anyone has shipped for plugging tools and data into LLMs. The hard part isn’t the spec — it’s everything that surrounds it. Schema design under churn, the gap between v0.1 and v0.2, the integration tests that actually catch regressions.

This feature pulls together three case-study posts from the daily firehose into a coherent arc, ordered so you can read end-to-end without context-switching across the archive. Each chapter cites and links back to the original daily post; the chapter form here adds connective tissue that didn’t fit in the daily format.