Giving the AI Hands: Extending It Into Your Real Systems
Unit 4 of The Workflow. How to connect AI to your real tools and data
Tags: MCP
Why I replaced MetaMCP with a custom MCP gateway I designed
Recently I started moving my MCP tools from a MetaMCP instance to a new MCP gateway call torii. Torii is a replacement for MetaMCP that I wrote the requirements for…
Your AI Already Writes Good Code. That’s Not Your Problem.
I built a free course for IT pros who can already get an AI to write
Zerto Docs MCP — Part 2: Hybrid Search and a Curated Knowledge Layer
Running a public Zerto Docs MCP server taught me the ceiling of dense-only retrieval. This is the story of finding it, fixing it with BM25 + RRF + reranker, and…
AI-Powered Grain Market Tracking for Farmers
How I built a self-hosted grain-marketing dashboard for my farm — scraping local cash bids, computing basis against CBOT, summarizing the day with a guard-railed LLM, and exposing the whole…
My Zerto Docs MCP Server: Ask Claude (or Copilot, or Cursor) Real Questions
A hosted MCP server that lets Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and other LLM clients answer Zerto questions using the actual help.zerto.com docs — 21,000 pages across 360+ bundles plus the entire…