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Using Model Context Protocol servers, including a self-hosted official Notion MCP, to keep SaaS credentials and client code out of the agent process.
Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, OpenClaw and Hermes each expect a different JSON config for the same MCP server, according to a dev.to guide. Its fix generates each file from code and adds two server-side shims for requests a config file cannot correct.
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The author of Doco argues that browse, search, cite and safe-edit operations over a maintained corpus do most of the work teams expect from embeddings, and that the pipeline adds a copy which drifts from the source.
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Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services puts a managed research agent behind entitlement-aware connectors to six commercial data vendors. The launch material never says how those licences price a machine reader.
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Vendo's open-source layer lets B2B customers generate features from a vendor's own APIs, acting as the signed-in user. The controls it ships are company-documented, not independently audited.
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A dev.to write-up describes a one-shot HTTP worker for Notion built on cheap models. The harness held. What broke was three variables, tool surface, model and prompt, treated as one.
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