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MCP Gateway or Direct Tool Calls: Choosing the Safer Integration Path
MCP makes tool connections easier to compose, but easier composition is not the same as safer operation. A team can wire an agent directly to a tool server, database wrapper, script, or API. It can also put a gateway between agents and…
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A Security Review Packet for New Agent Tooling
New agent tooling should not move from interesting demo to production access on instinct. A security review packet gives the team one small place to collect source evidence, install risks, static analysis results, guardrail decisions, and human approval notes before a skill…
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July ASE Roundup: Practical Agent Workflows Worth Rechecking
July was a useful stress test for Agent Skill Exchange because the strongest posts were not abstract arguments about agents. They were practical routes: how to check browser changes, how to keep WordPress actions bounded, how to convert messy documents into reviewable…
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Skill Spotlight: MarkItDown for Document-to-Markdown Agent Workflows
MarkItDown is useful when the job is not “summarize this file” yet. The first job is usually more basic: turn a mixed document into Markdown that an agent, reviewer, search tool, or downstream pipeline can inspect without pretending the conversion is the…
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A Media Review Workflow From Video to Transcript to Publish Notes
A useful media review workflow does not ask an agent to “finish the video.” It asks the agent to turn source media into reviewable evidence: scene boundaries, transcript text, timestamps, quality notes, and a short publish handoff that an editor can approve…
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DuckDB, Metabase, or Pandas: Picking a First Data Skill
A first data skill should match the work you need to repeat. DuckDB, Metabase, and pandas all sit near the same operator problem: someone has data, needs an answer, and wants an agent workflow that does not turn into a brittle one-off…
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REST API Review Skills Before You Let Agents Call Production
REST API Review Skills Before You Let Agents Call Production REST API Review Skills Before You Let Agents Call Production Letting an agent call a REST API is not the same as letting it read docs or draft sample code. A production…
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How to Route GitHub Issues Into Agent Work Without Losing Review Control
In Short GitHub issues are a useful doorway into agent work because they already hold intent, context, discussion, labels, and acceptance notes. The risk is that teams treat the issue as a blank permission slip: an agent picks up a vague ticket…
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An Incident Evidence Pack for Small SRE Teams
Small SRE teams rarely lose time because they lack one more dashboard. They lose time because the useful evidence is scattered: alerts in one place, logs in another, deployment notes in a chat thread, and the first human summary in someone’s head…
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Skill Spotlight: WP Abilities API for Safer WordPress Agent Actions
WordPress is moving toward a clearer contract for site capabilities. The Abilities API, introduced for WordPress 6.9 according to the official Make Core dev note, gives plugins, themes, and core code a standard way to register actions with names, descriptions, schemas, callbacks…