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28 posts tagged “MCP”.

  1. 30 min read

    Securing the Agentic Lakehouse Gateway: Preventing Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration

    Agentic lakehouse gateways face prompt injection and exfiltration through query results. A threat model and defenses for the layer in front of data.

  2. 30 min read

    The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse

    The five layers of an agentic lakehouse: Storage, Catalog, Semantic, Gateway, and Agent Surface, and how one question travels through all of them.

  3. 32 min read

    Securing the Agentic Lakehouse Gateway: A Threat Model for Prompt Injection, Exfiltration, and the Firewall That Reads Sentences

    A threat model for the agentic lakehouse gateway covering prompt injection, exfiltration, and the firewall that reads sentences.

  4. 31 min read

    Building Stateless AI Tool Gateways with FastMCP, the 2026 MCP Spec, and Kubernetes

    How to build stateless AI tool gateways with FastMCP, the 2026 MCP specification, and Kubernetes, and why statelessness finally makes MCP scale.

  5. 20 min read

    The Five Layers of an Agentic Lakehouse and Where the MCP Server Sits

    The five layers of an agentic lakehouse and where the MCP server sits: storage, catalog, semantic layer, MCP gateway, and agent surface, plus identity.

  6. 20 min read

    Why Agentic AI Needs a Governed Semantic Layer Behind the Model Context Protocol

    Why agentic AI needs a governed semantic layer behind the Model Context Protocol: metric consistency, access control, Apache Ossie for portable.

  7. 20 min read

    Moving From Supply Chain Dashboards to Decision Loops With the Model Context Protocol

    Moving from supply chain dashboards to decision loops with MCP: sense, decide, act, and verify, with typed action tools, idempotency keys, and graduated.

  8. 20 min read

    Defending the Lakehouse Gateway Against Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration

    Defending the lakehouse gateway against prompt injection and data exfiltration: per-user identity, no-SQL tool surfaces, volume bounds, and detection.

  9. 31 min read

    Wiring an AI Agent to Apache Polaris with the Model Context Protocol

    The catalog is the right attachment point for AI agents working against a lakehouse. Here's how to wire the official Polaris MCP Server and add the read.

  10. 18 min read

    GSA MCP Servers for Open Data AI Agents

    An in-depth exploration of gsa mcp servers for open data ai agents

  11. 17 min read

    MCP Stateless Gateways for Data Agents

    An in-depth exploration of mcp stateless gateways for data agents

  12. 29 min read

    The State of Agentic AI Standards in 2026: MCP, A2A, WebMCP, OSI, and the Protocol Stack Taking Shape

    The agentic AI protocol stack is solidifying in 2026, MCP for tools, A2A for agents, WebMCP for the web, OSI for semantics, payments, identity.

  13. 18 min read

    Conversational AI on Managed Iceberg: Exposing Amazon S3 Tables through MCP

    The most interesting part of conversational analytics is not the chat box. The chat box is just the surface area. The harder question is what happe...

  14. 26 min read

    Designing Your Own AI Harness: A Deep Dive Into the Architecture of Agent Loops, Tools, Context, and Control

    A deep dive into custom AI harness architecture: model layers, tool design, context management, permissions, control budgets, persistence, orchestration.

  15. 15 min read

    The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol Release Candidate: What the Stateless Spec Means for Data Platforms

    The date in this topic matters. Today is July 6, 2026. A release candidate dated July 28, 2026 is still in the future. That means this article shou...

  16. 14 min read

    Implementing MCP in the Lakehouse

    How to build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes lakehouse tables and semantic views as AI-accessible tools, with Python implementation.

  17. 16 min read

    Data Platform Native AI Agent Tooling in 2026

    A comprehensive comparison of AI agent tooling across Dremio, Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, AWS, Google Cloud, ClickHouse, VeloDB, SpiceAI.

  18. 5 min read

    A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 10 - Sampling and Prompts in MCP – Making Agent Workflows Smarter and Safer

    Sampling and Prompts in MCP – Making Agent Workflows Smarter and Safer

  19. 5 min read

    A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 9 - Tools in MCP – Giving LLMs the Power to Act

    Tools in MCP – Giving LLMs the Power to Act

  20. 5 min read

    A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 8 - Resources in MCP – Serving Relevant Data Securely to LLMs

    Resources in MCP – Serving Relevant Data Securely to LLMs

  21. 5 min read

    A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 7 - Under the Hood – The Architecture of MCP and Its Core Components

    Under the Hood – The Architecture of MCP and Its Core Components

  22. 5 min read

    Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 6 - Enter the Model Context Protocol (MCP) – The Interoperability Layer for AI Agents

    Enter the Model Context Protocol (MCP) – The Interoperability Layer for AI Agents

  23. 8 min read

    A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 5 - AI Agent Frameworks – Benefits and Limitations

    AI Agent Frameworks – Benefits and Limitations

  24. 5 min read

    A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 4 - What Are AI Agents – And Why They're the Future of LLM Applications

    What Are AI Agents – And Why They're the Future of LLM Applications

  25. 5 min read

    A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 3 - Boosting LLM Performance – Fine-Tuning, Prompt Engineering, and RAG

    Boosting LLM Performance – Fine-Tuning, Prompt Engineering, and RAG

  26. 5 min read

    A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 2 - How LLMs Work – Embeddings, Vectors, and Context Windows

    How LLMs Work – Embeddings, Vectors, and Context Windows

  27. 4 min read

    A Journey from AI to LLMs and MCP - 1 - What Is AI and How It Evolved Into LLMs

    What Is AI and How It Evolved Into LLMs

  28. 15 min read

    Building a Basic MCP Server with Python

    The Basics of Building a Basic MCP Server

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