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How to Configure MCP Servers in Claude Code
A step-by-step guide to adding, configuring, and debugging MCP servers in Claude Code — the config file, the `claude mcp add` command, environment variables, and the errors people hit most.
2026-07-23 · ~7 min
MCP Proxy Server vs MCP Gateway: Which Do You Need?
"Proxy" and "gateway" get used interchangeably in the MCP world, but they solve different problems. Here's how to tell them apart and pick the right one for your setup.
2026-07-23 · ~6 min
Choosing an MCP server for your company: a due-diligence checklist
Between "it installs and runs" and "it's production-ready" sits a due-diligence checklist nobody has written. We reverse-engineered 12 must-check items from the health data of 1,200+ servers.
2026-07-14 · ~12 min
10 MCP security red lines
An MCP server has every permission you grant it. If any one of these 10 red lines is crossed, uninstall immediately — no matter how useful it is.
2026-07-07 · ~8 min
Self-host vs remote server: cost, latency and trust model
The difference between a locally-run server and a cloud-hosted one is more than latency. The trade-off between three trust models decides where you draw your data boundary.
2026-06-30 · ~6 min
Before you move an MCP server into production
Timeouts, retries, concurrency, logging — the distance from demo to production lives in these details nobody writes down.
2026-06-22 · ~10 min