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How Claude Agents Actually Work: A 6-Layer Architecture Breakdown
<![CDATA[ Most developers, when they first wire up an LLM agent, carry a flawed mental model: the model runs code. It does not. Understanding where the boundary actually sits — what Anthropic's inf...
How I Used AI to Build Ginbok.com — From Idea to Production in My Spare Time
Ginbok.com started as a side project I spun up in my spare time — a personal blog powered by Optimizely CMS 12 on the backend and Next.js 14 on the frontend. What made this build different from my...
MCP Deployment Strategies: Stdio vs. HTTP SSE vs. WebSocket
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly emerged as the standard for connecting Large Language Models (LLMs) to external data sources and tools. As architects and developers, choosing the right...
Why the World Needed MCP When We Already Had APIs
A Question Worth Asking APIs have been around for decades. REST, GraphQL, gRPC — we have mature, well-documented standards for connecting software systems. So when MCP (Model Context Protocol) appe...
What Is an AI Agent? From Chatbot to Autonomous Actor
The Question That Started It All A developer recently asked me: "Are Claude or Cursor considered AI Agents?" It's a deceptively simple question. The answer forced a deeper look at what "Agent" actu...
How I Built a Custom MCP Server for My Personal Blog — ginbok-web
From Idea to MCP: Connecting AI to My Blog A few weeks ago, I had a simple but ambitious idea: what if I could talk to my blog the same way I talk to an AI assistant? Not just read posts — but lis...
Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Future of AI Software Control
Today’s AI models are incredibly powerful. They possess the reasoning capability to analyze complex datasets, generate code, and answer highly technical questions—a robust, intellectual "brain." Ho...
NotebookLM MCP Server: Bridging the API Gap for Knowledge Management
Introduction NotebookLM has been a powerful knowledge management tool, but one critical limitation has held developers back: the lack of a public API. This gap prevented direct integration with web...