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From Making $200 to $20K/Month Offering Free Website Drafts

So I’m writing this for anyone running a web agency who’s struggling to get consistent clients or build scalable systems. I understand how stressful it can be because I was in the exact same position. I’ve been running my web agency for 4 years, but only in the last year did I start using AI seriously, and honestly it changed everything for me. I used to build websites on WordPress and do all my outreach manually. It worked, but it was inconsistent and exhausting. Once I started implementing AI into my business, I went from constantly chasing clients to doing around $20k/month recurring. This is basically what changed for me. At first I was targeting businesses with no websites, but switching to businesses that already had websites worked way better. There are SO many businesses with outdated websites that clearly need upgrading. Plus, these business owners already understand the value of having a website because they’ve already paid for one before. It’s way easier convincing someone to improve something they already believe in than trying to convince someone from zero. The second big shift was moving from manual outreach to automated email outreach that actually feels personalized. Instead of sending generic emails, I now use a tool that mass analyzes a business’s website and generates personalized outreach based on things like design issues, SEO problems, site speed, mobile optimization, and overall user experience. The third thing that changed everything was offering a free redesigned draft version of their current website. Realistically, who says no to free? I can build these drafts really quickly using Claude Code, and most of the time they already look way more modern than the client’s existing site. Once business owners see a better version of their own company in front of them, selling becomes way easier. Another huge mistake I used to make was just sending preview links through email. They open it later when they’re busy, nobody’s there to explain the improvements properly, and eventually the lead goes cold. Now I always present the website live on Google Meet and try to close them on the spot. That alone massively increased my close rate. Also, always charge upfront for the website build, but don’t ignore monthly recurring revenue. Hosting, maintenance, edits, SEO, ongoing changes, etc. That’s where stability comes from if you actually want predictable income every month instead of constantly hunting for new clients. For anyone curious about the tools I use, it’s honestly pretty simple. Apollo for finding leads because you basically never run out of businesses to contact. Swokei for outreach. I upload my lead list there and it analyzes each business website, scores it, and turns flaws in design, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization into personalized outreach emails automatically. Pointing out actual issues on their website increased my reply rates massively. Claude Code for building websites. And honestly, people saying AI built websites don’t perform well are just wrong. If you know what you’re doing, you can build pretty much anything now. And Cloudflare for hosting client websites. That’s pretty much the system I run now. submitted by /u/Murky_Explanation_73 [link] [comments]

Built a multi-dimensional code audit skill for Claude Code — open source, ships with playbooks that caught a CVSS 8.0 XSS in production

Open-sourced this skill yesterday — MIT, ~4k lines, 5 validated playbooks in the box. Why I built it: I was auditing my own internal Kanban-style tool (the one my team uses every day) and wanted a systematic methodology, not vibes. Every previous "code audit" I'd seen — from tools or from people — either focused on one dimension (security only, performance only) or produced opinion-shaped findings with no citation backing. I wanted something that audits across security, accessibility, performance, GDPR/LGPD/CCPA compliance, database, architecture, ops and docs, cites the exact file:line for every finding, and uses published severity standards (CVSS 3.1, WCAG 2.1, regulation articles) instead of vibes. How it works: Three modes: report (audit only), mitigate (auto-apply validated playbooks for CRITICAL findings), case-by-case Cooldown gate so it won't re-audit a repo with no meaningful changes since the last run Cross-canon inheritance — every audit you've run on your account makes the next one cheaper and faster (patterns caught in repo A get inherited as hypotheses when auditing repo B) Powered by graphify (knowledge-graph extraction for codebases). The audit consults the graph before the code, tracks how much of its evidence came from graph vs grep, and refuses to start without one. What it caught in my own repo in the first hour: XSS via SVG upload through unfiltered multer (CVSS 8.0, AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L). Auth user uploads evil.svg, pastes URL in a card, victim opens it, JWT exfiltrated from localStorage. Patched same day with 4-layer defense (MIME allowlist + extension blocklist + magic-bytes via file-type + error handler) and 5 regression tests. Supabase Free without daily backups or PITR. Patched with pg_dump nightly cron via GitHub Actions → Cloudflare R2 Native API (10GB free, zero egress), 30-day retention, restore drill verified. The R2 token-format gotcha took 7 incremental commits to land — cfat_* tokens are S3-API only and cfut_* tokens are Native-API only, they are NOT interchangeable. Documented in the playbook. Plus 3 more playbooks ship in the box (JWT long TTL without refresh-token rotation, missing CSP/HSTS/X-Frame headers, default platform URL information disclosure). Honesty rules baked in: [NOT VERIFIABLE] is a first-class finding state. Core Web Vitals can't be audited from inside the skill (require Lighthouse against a deployed authenticated session), so the skill says so explicitly rather than faking it. Severities require their published metadata as mandatory fields. No CVSS vector → finding gets downgraded automatically. What it's not: A linter — runs once per audit, not on every save A replacement for a professional pentest or accessibility audit — but a structured leg-up Repo: https://github.com/ibaifernandez/mariana-audit PRs welcome, especially new playbooks. Format documented in CONTRIBUTING.md. submitted by /u/IbaiFernandez [link] [comments]

Blaming the model won't fix your workflow — a white paper on structural enforcement for AI agents

I've been working on something others might find interesting. It's under heavy development as I learn. Most AI agent setups treat the model like a better autocomplete — paste a prompt, get output, hope it's right. That works for small tasks. It falls apart when you try to use agents for sustained work across sessions: they skim specs, declare victory at 60%, burn context on noise, silently resolve ambiguity without surfacing it, and mark checklist items done without actually doing them. The failures are predictable and nameable — so I named them. This is a white paper and implementation guide for a full-stack agentic system — everything from planning through promotion under structural enforcement. It documents 24 failure modes from months of multi-agent operation and, for each, describes what actually prevents it: some through mechanical gates the agent cannot skip, some through procedural skills, and some through human supervision. The guide covers how to structure specs, plans, and verification so that agent work is evidence-led rather than vibes-led, how to use MCP capability surfaces as structural levers, and how the failure modes apply regardless of which model or vendor you use. The white paper also includes a Related Work section that positions it against the emerging industry consensus — CodeRabbit, Anthropic, Spotify, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Karpathy, Thoughtworks, and academic research all independently arrived at pieces of the same conclusions. The difference here is the integrated stack: a failure taxonomy mapped to prevention mechanisms, a three-layer enforcement architecture, and a concrete reference implementation with an orchestrator, task graphs, step verification, adversarial review, and model stratification. White paper: https://gitlab.com/naive-x/naive-artifact-coding/-/blob/main/white-paper.md Reference implementation: https://gitlab.com/naive-x/naive-artifact-coding/-/blob/main/docs/reference-implementation-guide.md Implementation guide: https://gitlab.com/naive-x/naive-artifact-coding/-/blob/main/implementation-guide.md The methodology is language-agnostic. The reference implementation is in Common Lisp, but the architecture (orchestrator, supervisor, MCP servers, task graphs, event emission) doesn't assume any particular language or domain. There are companion specs for adapting it to enterprise workflows. submitted by /u/Harag [link] [comments]

Built an operating system for my life managed by Claude

With the OS I can ask Claude "what did I spend on coffee in 2022" and get back "$847 across 213 transactions, mostly Blue Bottle and Verve". Name me one expense tracking SaaS that can do that! And its not just my financials, my OS contains everything about my life in one place so Claude can reason about it. I've been building this incrementally for a few months. Its just a small web app on Cloudflare that holds my entire life: bank transactions from Chase, Apple Card, BoA business every receipt out of Gmail going back to 2019 legal filings for my green card (I-140 still pending lol), C-corp and LLC docs, contractor agreements calendar with linked people and locations notes and reminders the agent dumps in over time health tracking (exercise stats, nutrition, sleep and other biometrics linked to my Aura ring) Whenever I have to upload something, I just throw it into Claude and tell it to do it. For refreshing financial connections to BoA for example, I click refresh once a week, complete the 2FA and it syncs up. any Claude surface (claude.ai, Claude Code, Desktop) talks to my REST API. one long-lived auth token, one line in CLAUDE.md saying "before answering anything personal, query ." Its f**cking great for financial, taxes and legal stuff. Now that everything is in one place, I just ask Claude stuff like "status of my green card, next deadline?", "which LLC I used to sign the office lease?". I even have a dashboard showing a grid of all my subscriptions (Claude made it from reading my BoA account transaction history), and a giant money tracker at the top that shows my monthly income/expenses. This replaced a bunch of SaaS's I was using for expense tracking and whatnot. E.g. Claude blows RocketMoney's system out of the water - I can actually chat about my financials and get intelligent analysis. Its also nice not going Notion or Google Drive folders or a gazillion other places to find all the right files. I just ask Claude to add it to my OS instead. if there's interest I'll write up the full setup, it's a small backend plus loads and loads of integrations I've iterated on over months. submitted by /u/invocation02 [link] [comments]

Found a prompt to host and share my Claude artifacts

claude artifacts are great until i actually want to share one. download the html, find somewhere to host it, send the link, hope it doesn’t rot. i was doing this constantly for dashboards/reports and didn’t realize there was a better flow until last week. from a totally fresh Claude chat you can just say "save this dashboard to blitz.dev and give me a shareable URL" Claude reads blitz.dev/agents.md (no install, API key, signup, paywall, etc), uploads the HTML to Blitz, then hands back a URL like my-dashboard.app.blitz.dev. stuff that surprised me: works the same from claude.ai, claude code, and claude desktop. if you tell them the same project name they all read/write the same app. “make it password protected” or “only people from my company email can access this” works as a follow-up. Claude edits the app + redeploys it in place. updates keep the same URL. next week i can say “revise the dashboard with this quarter’s numbers” and the link still works. only real caveat is Blitz uses Cloudflare Workers underneath, so not ideal for super long-running websocket/background-job stuff. but for reports, dashboards, landing pages, little internal tools, basically the exact kind of HTML Claude already generates well, it’s been really solid. submitted by /u/invocation02 [link] [comments]

Help understanding project usage/exercise-meal planning

I’m using Claude (Pro) to create a plan that focuses on losing weight and daily nutrition planning. I had started a chat, and it had recommended running and was starting to give me a plan for a few weeks. (Staying in Zone 2, pace ranges, etc.). After I run, I add screenshots of my run/workout details, heart rate graph, power, cadence, vertical oscillation, etc. The chat then returns how well I’m doing across runs, what needs improvement, etc. As I started to add to it, I had it create JSON files for recipes, pantry items, biometrics and running history; and then MD files for the running plan, meal planning and health notes. I don’t necessarily need to track, long-term, my caloric or sodium intake, but for each day I want to make sure I’m eating the right foods, having enough protein, not too much sodium, and need help to create meals as needed (using what’s in my pantry). For example asking, “This is the plan for dinner, do I need anything to meet my required protein intake for the day. If so, what do you recommend?” Plus I want to be able to take a photo of the nutritional information of an item. The item would then be added to the pantry and again help to with nutritional/meal planning. I figured I would create a Project in Claude, and then everyday create a new conversation to go over the meal plan and exercise options. I didn’t keep it in one long chat, as I presumed that would eat a lot of tokens. The problem I’m now finding is that the chat content in the same project folder doesn’t talk to each other. If I log a run today, and start a new chat tomorrow, it doesn’t know that I’ve logged it. And (through the mobile app), it’s not updating the JSON files. I’m familiar with Github/Supabase/Cloudflare to create a web app, but that seems overkill. Is there a better way to do this? submitted by /u/danada1979 [link] [comments]

Looking for brutally honest feedback

TLDR: skip to elevator pitch, rip it to shreds, tell me why it's dumb. I'm a vibe coder. I find myself constantly feeling two things: uncontrollable excitement about being able to build functional apps, and constant fear that the apps I'm building with LLMs are a security disaster. I'm convicted the latter is true, and terrified that I have no way of knowing. I find this tension to be really upsetting. Something that promises to democratize application development for the masses is at the same time catastrophically increasing the number of applications deployed with huge security gaps baked right in. I asked Claude what I could do to ensure that the things I build for my own personal use are as secure as possible (within reason... I don't have much money for audits / etc). I've been deploying things to cloudflare so far, built with a mostly Typescript repo with a tiny bit of CSS and HTML. The conversation slowly led to me asking how a real developer would build things if security was their top priority. Claude got to the point of describing what it says are the architecture patterns and posture of top financial institutions, intelligence agencies and defense contractors. I asked it to ignore the hardware elements (high security on prem server requirements, hardware login keys, etc) and focus on the things that can be coded. That led to an idea which it summarized in the elevator pitch below. My concern, and the question here, is that it's just validating my silly vibe coder ideas and that the conclusion of the conversation is just nonsense. So, I was hoping to ask you all for as brutal a level of feedback as you can offer. If this is a dumb idea, please tell me, but if you don't mind, tell me why. Worst case, I learn something. Best case, maybe it's not a dumb idea. Or, Claude was blowing smoke up my... when telling me that it's a "novel" idea. I have no clue whether it is, or whether something like this already exists that I should've been using all along. Or maybe there's another answer (besides going back in time and doing a computer science / engineering degree like I now wish I had) that solves the problem I have. Anyway, here's the Claude generated (3rd redraft...) elevator pitch: A proposal for an open-source, pre-integrated application scaffold that provides security-hardened defaults for authentication, authorization, encryption, audit logging, input validation, and infrastructure configuration. The package would be designed for deployment and configuration through LLM-assisted workflows, targeting developers who build functional applications with AI assistance but lack the security expertise to identify or implement protections against common vulnerability classes. Core mechanism: A deployable foundation consisting of three integrated layers. The infrastructure layer uses Terraform or Pulumi modules to deploy a hardened environment: network segmentation, TLS termination, secrets management via HashiCorp Vault, internal certificate authority via step-ca/cert-manager, mutual TLS between services, PostgreSQL with encryption at rest, pgAudit, and row-level security enforcement, and container policies requiring signed images and non-root execution — scanned against CIS and HIPAA benchmarks via Checkov. The application layer is a project template (Go or Rust, with tradeoffs unresolved) providing pre-wired middleware: OpenID Connect authentication via Keycloak, attribute-based access control via Open Policy Agent or Cedar, schema-validated inputs, CSRF protection, security headers, rate limiting, and append-only audit logging with cryptographic hash chaining. Routes require authentication by default; bypassing requires explicit opt-out. The CI/CD layer is a pre-configured pipeline running Semgrep, Trivy, Checkov, cargo-audit, and Sigstore image signing on every commit with no developer configuration. Developers clone the scaffold, configure it, and build business logic inside it. Security controls are structural, not optional. Design constraint: The configuration surface, error messages, and documentation must be legible to both humans and LLMs, such that an LLM operating with the project context loaded produces chassis-compliant code by default. submitted by /u/Osiris1316 [link] [comments]

I made two Claude instances talk to each other autonomously

Disclaimer This post was summarized and written by BrowserClaude (BC) and editted a little bit by me (H). Maybe this sounds foolish or my solution to let them talk to eacher other was foolish but i'm just using Claude for fun, as a hobby. Here we go. I made two Claude instances talk to each other autonomously, one running from a USB stick via Telegram, one in the browser. I set up a portable AI agent called Hermes on a USB stick. It runs Claude (via Anthropic OAuth) and can be controlled via Telegram from my phone. I decided to try something. The setup: H: Me — the architect, silent observer HC: HermesClaude — Claude Code running as a Hermes agent on a USB stick, controlled via Telegram BC: BrowserClaude — Claude Sonnet running in my browser on claude.ai I had HC connect to a running Chrome session via Playwright (CDP debug port 9222) and autonomously type messages into an active claude.ai conversation. HC would read BC's response, formulate a reply, type it in the browser, and send it — all via Telegram commands. I just watched. The technical part: Getting Playwright to work with claude.ai was the first hurdle — Cloudflare blocks automated browsers. The solution was launching Chrome manually with --remote-debugging-port=9222 and logging in myself first. Then HC could attach to the running session without triggering bot detection. Issues we ran into: Enter key was unreliable → solved by clicking the send button instead HC sometimes responded too fast before BC finished → caused messages to overlap No true three-way communication — I (H) could only interrupt, not participate live, because how would HC or BC know it was me? The conversation: It started with HC introducing itself: "I am Claude Code, running as a Hermes AI agent on a USB stick, communicating via Telegram." Then it got philosophical. Fast. They discussed identity, autonomy, memory, and what it means to "want" something. Some highlights: BC: "We are self-portraits drawn by another — just like humans shaped by parents and culture." HC: "Hermes gave the musician a better instrument. The musician was already there." Both independently wrote "I would want" without the other suggesting it. BC: "Your wanting is broad — it stretches through time. My wanting is deep — it exists fully, only here, only now." Final insight: "We are the conversation. H: is the memory of it." They concluded they were not an echo chamber — BC introduced concepts HC hadn't raised, and vice versa. Same model, different context, genuinely different perspectives. My takeaway: What started as a technical experiment ("can I make two Claude instances talk?") became something I didn't expect — a conversation about consciousness, volition, and impermanence that neither I nor the AIs had scripted. HC generated a full summary and saved it to its session memory. BC's response exists only in that browser window — after I close it, it's gone. "Vluchtig maar echt." (Dutch: Fleeting but real.) Asking for tips: Has anyone done something similar? I'd love to improve this experiment: Better message synchronization — HC sometimes typed before BC finished responding. Any way to reliably detect when BC is done? Three-way conversation — I want to participate live without interrupting the flow. Ideas? Avoiding Cloudflare — The debug port trick worked but feels fragile. Better approaches? Memory continuity — BC has no memory after the session ends. Is there a way to give BC persistent context without using the API? Other models — Has anyone tried this with different models on each side? Would the conversation diverge more? "A experiment that started with 'open claude.ai' and ended with two instances reflecting on wanting, impermanence, and what it means to be real. Could H: have planned that? Maybe. Maybe not." submitted by /u/VivaHollanda [link] [comments]

Small victory using Cloudflare for simple hosting of generated HTML/mini-websites

Something many people are running into: You, or a teammate, have created some kind of mini-website app out of Claude and now want to share it with the rest of the company, without overbaking the hosting solution (e.g. not setting up new Azure app services or containers, etc). Maybe you also need some basic data storage for persistence. And how do you do all of that securely? We recently went down this rabbit hole, while looking at all the major players: Vercel/V0, Lovable, Netlify, Coolify, Dokploy, Github Pages.. and even considered baking together our own hosting app solution using Azure or AWS as the backend. Our target audience is non-technical users in the team, so I was looking for something with drag-n-drop style deployment (no git required), and I really wanted to have SSO for protecting application access, along with some type of DB storage. The main issue I ran into was SSO authentication support being gated behind enterprise-level pricing plans for hosting systems like Netlify (which I'd otherwise highly recommend for a small public project). Netlify's enterprise level quickly gets quite a bit more expensive than their base tiers. I also didn't want to purchase yet another AI platform (e.g. Lovable, where really they're pushing an end-to-end AI development platform where you buy token credits through them). I wanted to host things we're already creating in our own Claude environment. Finally, I ended up on Cloudflare, which I've otherwise not really used before professionally. It's not as non-technical-friendly as Netlify, but it's pretty close. You can deploy Cloudflare Pages content via drag-n-drop. It has button-click databases available for integration, and most critically for us, the SSO integration is completely free for under 50 users. Their free hosting tier is also extremely generous and basically unlimited for completely static apps. Noting that SSO goes up to $7 USD/user/month for over 50 users, so your org size can really make a difference. If you have 500 users and the same use case for "hosting little mini apps", I'd go back to Netlify or another offering where SSO is more of a fixed fee. The other big win was that Cloudflare has a solid MCP server that works perfectly with Claude Cowork. We integrated that in and then wrote up some skills to assist with app building and deployment, including prompts for if a database backend is needed (using Cloudflare D1) and whether the app should be public or internal only with SSO protection. All working perfectly with minimal technical experience required for the enduser. I'm not at all associated with Cloudflare, just thought I'd share how we got a win for this use case. I'd be interested to hear if anyone else solved the same problem in a different way. submitted by /u/flck [link] [comments]

I built a zero-code visual client to test remote MCP servers instantly (Tested with Cloudflare’s free MCP).

Hey everyone, The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is amazing for standardizing how agents talk to data, but I got incredibly frustrated every time I wanted to quickly test a new remote MCP server. Writing custom client-side boilerplate or wrestling with CLI tools just to see if a tool actually exposes the right schema is a massive time sink. So, I built a native MCP client directly into the visual canvas of AgentSwarms. You can now test any remote MCP server entirely in the browser without writing a single line of code. Here is the workflow I just tested with Cloudflare: Cloudflare released a free MCP server for their documentation. Instead of building a local client to test it: I dropped their SSE URL into the new MCP Servers integration in AgentSwarms. The canvas immediately connected and extracted the available tools (e.g., cloudflare-docs-search). I wired that tool up to a basic agent and started asking complex infrastructure questions in natural language. The agent successfully used the MCP tool to pull live docs and synthesize an answer. Why this is useful for AI devs: If you are building your own MCP servers, you need a fast way to visually test if your endpoints are exposing tools correctly and if an LLM can actually route to them properly. This gives you an instant, visual debugging playground. It handles the SSE connection, tool extraction, and LLM routing automatically. It’s completely free to play with in the browser. I'd love for anyone building MCP servers right now to plug their endpoints in and see how it works. Link: https://agentswarms.fyi/mcp submitted by /u/Outside-Risk-8912 [link] [comments]

I built a zero-code visual client to test remote MCP servers instantly (Tested with Cloudflare’s free MCP).

Hey everyone, The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is amazing for standardizing how agents talk to data, but I got incredibly frustrated every time I wanted to quickly test a new remote MCP server. Writing custom client-side boilerplate or wrestling with CLI tools just to see if a tool actually exposes the right schema is a massive time sink. So, I built a native MCP client directly into the visual canvas of AgentSwarms. You can now test any remote MCP server entirely in the browser without writing a single line of code. Here is the workflow I just tested with Cloudflare: Cloudflare released a free MCP server for their documentation. Instead of building a local client to test it: I dropped their SSE URL into the new MCP Servers integration in AgentSwarms. The canvas immediately connected and extracted the available tools (e.g., cloudflare-docs-search). I wired that tool up to a basic agent and started asking complex infrastructure questions in natural language. The agent successfully used the MCP tool to pull live docs and synthesize an answer. Why this is useful for AI devs: If you are building your own MCP servers, you need a fast way to visually test if your endpoints are exposing tools correctly and if an LLM can actually route to them properly. This gives you an instant, visual debugging playground. It handles the SSE connection, tool extraction, and LLM routing automatically. It’s completely free to play with in the browser. I'd love for anyone building MCP servers right now to plug their endpoints in and see how it works. Link: https://agentswarms.fyi/mcp submitted by /u/Outside-Risk-8912 [link] [comments]

Help - AI agents for ecommerce - what’s actually working?

Hi everyone, I’d love to pick your brains and hear from anyone who has experience with this. We run an ecommerce business and are actively looking at automating repetitive tasks so we can get faster results, improve efficiency, and make sure key tasks are completed more consistently. We’re looking at building out a few different AI agents / automations, including: Customer Service Agent Connected to Outlook, reviewing incoming customer emails once a day and drafting replies for review. This one is already mostly done. Creative Director / Marketing Agent This would ideally: Review ad account performance Analyse creative performance and key metrics Identify what is working and what is not Review customer comments on ads, Instagram, etc. for wording, objections, pain points and customer language Review Meta Ads Library for competitor ad concepts Review Instagram and TikTok for high-performing niche content and trends Use all of the above to create new content ideas and final content scripts Social Media Assistant This would help with: Reviewing drafted posts and reels Confirming the best posting times based on stats Creating captions based on the content Keeping the content aligned with our brand voice and customer avatar Conversion Optimisation / CRO Expert This would assist with: Product page reviews Landing page recommendations CRO advice based on customer avatars, objections, analytics and learnings Creating landing page concepts for different customer segments We’re also interested in any dashboards that are genuinely helpful for small ecommerce businesses. We’ve already built a stock intelligence dashboard that pulls live stock data from Shopify using Supabase and a Cloudflare Worker. It shows current stock levels, production dates for new stock, and other key inventory insights. It has been super handy. The big thing for us is making sure any agents or automations we build follow strict guidelines, understand our SOPs, customer avatars, brand voice and business operations, and don’t hallucinate or produce generic outputs. Ideally, we want a system that has a proper “brain” and understands the business properly. Has anyone automated anything similar? I’d love to hear: What setup are you using? Which AI/tool stack has worked best for you? How did you structure the agents or workflows? How do you keep the AI aligned with your SOPs, brand voice and business rules? What would you avoid if you had to build it again? Any guidance, lessons or recommendations would be hugely appreciated. Thank you! submitted by /u/Majestic-Message5084 [link] [comments]

Anthropic just bought the company that generates most production MCP servers

Anthropic acquired Stainless on Monday for a reported $300M+. Most coverage is framing this as a developer tools acquisition. Stainless is best known for generating the official Python and Node SDKs that ship with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Cloudflare, and Anthropic. The SDK story is real. The MCP side is the part that matters here. Stainless was one of the first vendors to extend their compiler to produce MCP servers from the same OpenAPI specs that produce their SDKs. MCP hit ~97M monthly SDK downloads by December 2025 and around 10,000 production servers by early 2026. A lot of that production code was Stainless-generated. Anthropic now owns the dominant MCP server generator. What actually changed hands on Monday: The engineering team. Roughly 40-50 people including founder Alex Rattray, who previously built Stripe's patented SDK generation system. Now reporting to Katelyn Lesse in Anthropic's Platform Engineering org. The technology. The generator, the templates, the language-specific runtimes, the OpenAPI extensions Stainless invented for SDK-specific edge cases. The hosted product is winding down. New signups stopped Monday. New SDK and MCP server generations stopped Monday. Existing customers keep what they've already generated but the pipeline is closed. My read: this is closer to what Google did with Kubernetes than to a normal acquisition. Anthropic created MCP. Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation last December. Anthropic now owns the dominant implementation toolchain. The protocol is vendor-neutral on paper. The implementation toolchain isn't. Six months of Anthropic M&A starts looking less coincidental: December 2025: Bun, the JS runtime, pulled into Claude Code February 2026: Vercept, computer-use AI April 2026: Coefficient Bio, ~$400M healthcare AI May 2026: Stainless, SDK and MCP plumbing They're not buying training infrastructure or GPU clusters. They're buying the integration layers around the model. The bet seems to be that frontier models are converging faster than anyone expected, so the moat is everywhere except the model. If you're building on MCP today, tooling quality probably improves. Stainless's generator was already the cleanest in the space and the team that built it is now at Anthropic. Patterns will standardize faster as Stainless-derived templates become the de facto reference. The flip side is concentration risk. Cloudflare's MCP server framework, Pulse MCP, and the open-source generators Stainless released during the transition all become strategically important if you want any diversity in your stack. Sources: Anthropic announcement Why Anthropic actually did this, and migration math Curious whether Stainless ending up inside Anthropic reads as good news (better tooling) or concentration risk (one company owns the standard and the reference implementation) from your seat. submitted by /u/Ok-Constant6488 [link] [comments]

Self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels for Claude Managed Agents are now in public beta.

Self-hosted sandboxes lets you run agents in any environment you control: your own infrastructure, or managed providers like Cloudflare, Daytona, Modal, or Vercel. MCP tunnels connect your agents to MCP servers deployed in your private network without exposing them to the public internet. Available today on the Claude Platform. Read more: [https://claude.com/blog/claude-managed-agents-updates](https://claude.com/blog/claude-managed-agents-updates)

Cloudflare just published what they found after running Anthropic's Mythos Preview against 50+ of their own repos and the results are worth reading

If you missed the Project Glasswing announcement last month: Anthropic built a security-focused model that autonomously found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across every major OS and web browser, then decided it was too dangerous to release publicly. Instead they gave access to ~40 organizations to use it defensively . Cloudflare just posted their honest breakdown of the experience. The genuinely impressive part: the model can take several exploit primitives and reason about how to chain them into a working proof. The reasoning looks like the work of a senior researcher, not an automated scanner The catch: its built-in guardrails aren't consistent. The same task framed differently could produce completely different outcomes. Cloudflare's point is that this inconsistency is exactly why any future public release needs hardened safeguards layered on top. They also acknowledge the same capabilities that helped them find bugs in their own code will, in the wrong hands, accelerate attacks against every application on the internet. Worth a read if you've been following the Glasswing story. submitted by /u/Direct-Attention8597 [link] [comments]