MCPBundles Blog

Guides for AI agents & real tools

Workflow stories, launch notes, and practical patterns for connecting chat to production systems.

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Zotero with AI: Run Your Research Library From Chat

What AI agents can now do with Zotero: search your saved library, read citation details and notes, download PDFs, organize collections, tidy metadata, and work across shared group libraries.

Jun 9, 20267 min read

Security

Container CVE Triage: Local Scans, Three Buckets, and Explainable Policies

Run Trivy locally via Desktop, enrich with NVD+KEV+EPSS, and bucket into exploit priority / patch today / defer — with bucket_reason on every row and tunable policy presets.

Jun 5, 20264 min read

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FCC Broadband Map Data in AI Agents: Snapshots, Provider Lists, and Coverage Files

How AI agents pull FCC Broadband Map data — snapshot dates, national provider lists, state coverage files, and challenge filings — straight into a workflow instead of clicking through the FCC download portal.

Jun 2, 20266 min read

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Google Ads for Agencies: Pick the Client, Then Run the Account with AI

If you manage many Google Ads clients under one login, you can name the client in chat, let the AI find the right account, and run spend and search-term reports without clicking through the account tree.

Jun 1, 20264 min read

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n8n Automation MCP: Connect Your Instance, Deploy from Claude Code

Connect your self-hosted n8n instance to Claude Code via MCP — search real templates, deploy workflows, and auto-repair failed runs.

Jun 1, 20264 min read

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ShipStation with AI: Fulfillment Questions Belong in Chat, Not Five Tabs

How AI agents can read and write ShipStation — carriers, shipments, labels, tags, batches, and inventory — from your connected account without exporting CSVs or clicking through the shipping dashboard.

Jun 1, 20265 min read

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MCPBundles Desktop: Connect Cloud AI to Your Obsidian Vault (and Other Apps on Your Mac)

MCPBundles Desktop is a menu-bar app that lets Studio, ChatGPT, and Cursor reach Obsidian and other apps on your computer — without leaving a terminal open or copying notes into chat.

May 29, 20265 min read

Releases

Twenty-Two Seconds Per MCP Call (and How We Fixed It)

MCP tool calls on the MCPBundles CLI dropped from ~22 seconds to ~0.4 seconds. We run dozens of production MCP calls every morning for growth ops — and a full refresh now finishes in under a minute instead of fifteen.

May 28, 20264 min read

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SolarWinds Service Desk with AI: ITSM Workflows That Start With the Queue

How AI agents can triage incidents, trace problems and changes, review CMDB inventory, pull knowledge articles, and audit procurement from SolarWinds Service Desk.

May 27, 20265 min read

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SonarCloud with AI: Code Quality Workflows That Start at the Gate

How AI agents can read SonarCloud organizations, projects, issues, quality gates, security hotspots, and measures for release readiness and security review in chat.

May 27, 20265 min read

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Timely with AI: Time Tracking Workflows for Agencies and Teams

How AI agents can list Timely accounts, log hours against projects, manage clients and labels, plan forecasts, and review team activity from chat.

May 27, 20265 min read

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Insightful with AI: Workforce, Projects, and Tracking Settings

How AI agents can use Insightful to review teams and employees, manage projects and tasks, and inspect shared tracking settings for workforce productivity workflows.

May 26, 20263 min read

A2A

Why MCPBundles Adopted the A2A Protocol (and How It Works)

MCP gives your AI tools. A2A agents run when nobody is in chat — on a schedule, from a webhook, or from another app. Here's why we built on the open Agent-to-Agent standard.

May 25, 20266 min read

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AI That You Can See: Three Real MCP Apps in ChatGPT

MCP Apps put maps, layouts, and live data inside the conversation. Here are real ChatGPT screenshots — Canva, Tripadvisor, and Charge Atlas — not stock demos.

May 19, 20262 min read

Deep Dives

Which AI Tools Actually Support MCP Well Right Now (May 2026)

A frank, ranked field report on the state of Model Context Protocol support across Cursor, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Codex, VS Code, Gemini, Windsurf, Zed, and the rest. What's smooth, what's quirky, and what just changed.

May 11, 202611 min read