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Build a Payroll & HR Agentic MCP Server for Kredily-Style Workforce Operations

Inspired by Kredily 3.0's KAI launch on August 14, 2026, this dispatch builds payroll-hr-mcp, a FastMCP TypeScript server exposing read-only payroll overview, attendance, statutory compliance, and pay-slip queries to agents. Write tools — payslip runs and reimbursement approvals — are gated behind a human-approval workflow with OAuth 2.0 enforcement.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
10m read
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Build a Read-Write Boundary MCP Server for Agentic Office Workflows

Inspired by Microsoft's June 30, 2026 read-write agent shift, this dispatch builds rw-boundary-mcp, a FastMCP TypeScript server wrapping office/document APIs. Read tools are always available; write tools require a scope token plus an approval gate, and every mutation is logged to an append-only audit trail.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
10m read
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Build a MongoDB Atlas MCP Server for Agentic Data Access & Vector Search

MongoDB launched the Atlas Managed MCP Server on August 14, 2026, making live operational data a first-class resource for AI coding agents. This guide builds atlas-mcp, a FastMCP TypeScript gateway that exposes read-only tools for querying Atlas collections and Atlas Vector Search, with inputSchema JSON contracts, result caps, field allowlists, and OAuth 2.0 / API-key security — the governed pattern teams need before agents touch production data.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
10m read
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Build a GitHub Actions Security MCP Server for Agent-Safe CI/CD

After Google deleted three ADK workflows (Aug 4, 2026) over an agent-to-agent privilege boundary failure in CI/CD, agent-safe pipelines are the security story of the summer. This guide builds gh-actions-sec, a FastMCP TypeScript server that gives agents read-only visibility into GitHub Actions posture: workflow permissions, secret exposure, action allowlists, and run logs — so a CI/CD agent can audit and harden pipelines without ever holding write credentials.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
10m read
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Build a Dimensions MCP Server for Agentic Research Discovery

Digital Science launched two Dimensions MCP servers on August 10, 2026 - Semantic Search MCP and Analytics MCP - giving AI agents license-aligned access to 430M+ interconnected research records. This guide builds dimensions-mcp, a Python FastMCP gateway wrapping the Dimensions API with typed search tools, inputSchema contracts, pagination, result caps, rate limiting, and OAuth/API-key security, plus a literature-review agent workflow.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
9m read
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Build an SEC EDGAR MCP Server for Agentic Disclosure Monitoring

Financial teams in 2026 run agentic AI for continuous disclosure monitoring, and SEC EDGAR is the data source - keyless but governed by a 10 requests/second cap and a mandatory descriptive User-Agent. This guide builds edgar-mcp, a TypeScript MCP server wrapping EDGAR's full-text search, submissions, XBRL company facts, and RSS filing feeds with inputSchema contracts, caching, rate-limit compliance, and an agentic 8-K alert workflow.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
9m read
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Build an EU AI Act Compliance MCP Server for High-Risk Agentic Systems

On August 2, 2026 the EU AI Act's remaining obligations started applying — including the transparency rules and the high-risk regime that classifies much of multi-agent orchestration in high-impact sectors. This guide builds a FastMCP Python server, eu-ai-act-mcp, that helps builders audit their agentic systems against the obligations: risk classification, transparency disclosures, documentation generation, and conformity-assessment evidence tracking.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
15m read
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Build an Autodesk Fusion MCP Server for Agentic CAD & AEC Workflows

Autodesk has been shipping MCP servers across its platform — Fusion MCP servers that run locally and let agents model and execute Fusion commands, plus a read-only Product Help MCP server and Autodesk Platform Services MCP connectors. This guide builds a production FastMCP Python gateway, fusion-mcp, that wraps Fusion design automation and Platform Services into typed agent tools — model query, parameter editing, geometry export, and design-task execution — with OAuth 2.0, session isolation, and a design-change approval gate.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
15m read
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Build a Nutanix Cloud Operations MCP Server with Prism V4 APIs

Nutanix released an open-source Model Context Protocol server on August 10, 2026, letting AI assistants like GitHub Copilot interact with Nutanix Cloud Platform through Prism V4 APIs. This guide builds a production FastMCP Python server, prism-ops-mcp, that wraps Prism V4 into typed agent tools — cluster health, host inventory, VM listing, storage utilization, and safe operations — with read-only defaults, OAuth 2.0 auth, and an approval-gated action surface.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
14m read
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Build a SnapLogic Platform MCP Server for Agentic iPaaS Integration

SnapLogic's August 13, 2026 release turned MCP into infrastructure: a dedicated Platform MCP Server with eight discovery and export tools, pipelines exposed directly as tools, MCP Metrics in Monitor, and RFC 8693 token exchange for scoped downstream credentials. This guide builds a production FastMCP Python server that wraps the SnapLogic platform into typed agent tools — discovery, pipeline export, project inspection, and tool invocation — with token exchange and audit built in.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
15m read
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Build a Marketo Engage MCP Server for Agentic Marketing Campaign Automation

Adobe's Marketo Engage MCP Server connects AI assistants to more than 100 operations across forms, programs, smart campaigns, leads, and emails. This guide builds a production FastMCP TypeScript server that wraps Marketo into typed agent tools — program health, campaign status, lead routing, and form management — with OAuth 2.0 and action-level RBAC.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
15m read
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Build a Getty Images MCP Server for Agentic Creative & Editorial Content Search

Getty Images launched an MCP Server on August 12, 2026, connecting its creative and editorial content catalog to AI workflows and products through a single integration. This guide builds a production FastMCP Python server that wraps the Getty Images API into typed agent tools — creative search, editorial search, curated collections, and asset metadata — with OAuth 2.0 client-credentials auth, license-aware result filtering, and rate limiting.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
14m read
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