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Build an A2UI app with MCP
Let the chat model generate interactive A2UI layouts and render them in an MCP App view.
Run code in a Daytona sandbox with MCP
Add a run_code tool that executes code in a Daytona sandbox and returns the output through MCP.
Add an MCP server to a Next.js app
Add an MCP endpoint to your existing Next.js app with one simple tool.
Build a property search MCP app
Build a map-based home search MCP App that the chat model refines in place with view tools.
Track MCP server errors with Sentry
Trace MCP tool calls and report failures with Sentry.
Add an MCP server to a TanStack Start app
Add an MCP endpoint to your existing TanStack Start app with one simple tool.
Rate-limit MCP tool calls with Upstash Redis
Rate-limit MCP tool calls with Upstash Redis before running the tool.
How to host an MCP server: hosting options and setup
Give your MCP server a remote endpoint, configure access, and test it in real clients. Follow the deployment workflow and monitor tool usage.
Introducing Manufact MCP v2.0
Manufact MCP v1 made deployment decisions the agent could not see. V2.0 splits them into small tools that report facts, and every error names the next step.
How Do You Measure MCP Server Quality?
A free MCP quality score checks your server's tools, protocol, metadata, and discoverability. See what Manufact measures, what the score misses, and how to improve it.
How to Generate an MCP App Submission Pack for ChatGPT
Generate an MCP App submission pack with listing copy, reviewer test cases, screenshots, and a demo video in Manufact.
Why does my MCP server work in Inspector but fail in ChatGPT or Claude?
Find the first difference between an MCP Inspector pass and a failure in ChatGPT or Claude, from connection and auth to tool use and UI.
How Alpha Vantage automated MCP hosting and QA with Manufact
Alpha Vantage planned to build its own MCP stack on AWS. They chose Manufact instead, replacing hand-built cross-client test suites with one platform for hosting, deployment, testing, and analytics.
OpenAI MCP Extensions: bring your app into ChatGPT as a Plugin
Open your MCP app from the sidebar, keep its UI in sync with the conversation, and handle files in your own editor. A practical guide to OpenAI MCP Extensions.
Test Your MCP Server in Claude Code, Codex, and ChatGPT
Manufact test suites now run your MCP server inside Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Pi, next to ChatGPT, Claude, and the Inspector. Every run is scored by an LLM judge that tells you what to fix.
Agents That Answer with UI: CopilotKit × mcp-use
A CopilotKit agent answers with an interactive map from an MCP App built with mcp-use.
How to add Mixed Authentication to your MCP Server
Let anyone browse your MCP server and ask for sign-in only when a tool needs it, in both Claude and ChatGPT.
How to Submit an MCP Server to Muse
Submit a hosted MCP server to Muse, then complete the developer portal's business, data processing, and credential intake for review.
How to add per-user tool permissions to your MCP server with mcp-use
Login names the caller, and a read-only user can still call your write tools until the tool checks.
MoChiPi: Connect Your MCP Servers Once
The easiest way to take your MCPs across clients.
The 8 Best MCP Deployment Platforms in 2026
Manufact, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Smithery, MintMCP, Stainless, Zapier MCP, and MCPHosting.io compared on languages, testing, analytics, auth, publishing checks, and developer workflow.
MCP Deployment Platform Benchmark: 8 Platforms, 12 Metrics
Eight MCP platforms scored on 12 measurable metrics with a published rubric and a source link for every value. Manufact 95, Cloudflare 50, Smithery 44, MintMCP 42, Vercel 33.
What are Skills over MCP?
Ship your Skills alongside your MCP Server
Build vs. buy: how to run MCP infrastructure yourself
An MCP server is easy to stand up and hard to operate. These are the five layers you take on when you run MCP in production yourself, and what a web app would get for free.
Turn an OpenAPI spec into an MCP server
How to convert your API into an MCP Server with one line
View Tools in MCP Apps
An outline for a future post about updating a live MCP App view instead of creating a new view for every refinement.
How to Distribute Your MCP Server Across ChatGPT, Claude, Muse, Grok, and Cursor
Compare public directory submissions for ChatGPT, Claude, Muse, and Cursor, plus custom MCP setup in Grok.
How to Submit an MCP Server to Anthropic's Connectors Directory
Submit a remote MCP server to Claude, understand the automated community review, and check for common blockers before publishing.
How PredictLeads Avoided Weeks of MCP Marketplace Review
PredictLeads used Manufact's pre-submission checks to catch missing output schemas and oversized responses before review, avoiding weeks of blind resubmission.
mcp-use v2 The age of stateless MCP
MCP 2026-07-28 removes protocol-level sessions. Here is what changed in mcp-use v2, what we learned while rebuilding it, and what it enables for Manufact Cloud.
How AgentMail handles 100k+ agent tool calls with Manufact
AgentMail runs 100,000+ MCP tool calls a week on Manufact's managed infrastructure, going from paying customer to production server in one week.
OpenAI is merging Codex and ChatGPT. Here is what it means for MCP
OpenAI is bringing Codex and ChatGPT onto one platform, with MCP at the center. What changed for people building MCP servers and apps.
What Are MCP Apps?
MCP started as tool calls and grew a real UI layer that is now an official part of the protocol. What an MCP app is, how returning UI works, when you need it, and how to build one with mcp-use.
Manufact is live in the ChatGPT App Store
Deploy, debug, and monitor your MCP servers from a ChatGPT conversation. The Manufact app is now available in the ChatGPT App Store.
Manufact is now a Claude connector
Manufact is available as a connector on Claude. Published connectors are discoverable to every Claude user, and our signups jumped more than 10x after publication.
The road to 10,000 stars
The history of mcp-use, told as a pull request, from the first commit to 10,000 GitHub stars. Commits are what we shipped; comments are what happened.
How iAhorro shipped a mortgage simulation app on ChatGPT in 4 days
iAhorro went from an early prototype to a production-ready MCP App on ChatGPT in days, using mcp-use and Manufact Cloud.
Meilleurtaux: First French Broker to Launch on ChatGPT
Meilleurtaux is the first credit and mortgage broker in France to launch a dedicated app on ChatGPT. They built a borrowing-capacity simulator on top of their real-time data with mcp-use and Manufact Cloud, in under two months.
How item exposed its product agent to ChatGPT and Claude with mcp-use
item already had a great internal agent inside their Next.js app. Their customers wanted to use it from their own agents. Here is how item shipped a production MCP server from the same repo, reusing the tools they already had and exposing the agent itself as a tool.
How Simera turned its global talent database into an agent
Simera spent years building more than a resume database: structured professional data with pre-screened skills, communication scores, and verified hiring alignment. That proprietary intelligence was the moat, but every match still ran through a person. Here is how they turned it into Agent David, one MCP app that serves their customers, their website, and their own operations team.
Migrating from Stainless: OpenAPI to MCP with mcp-use and Manufact
Stainless is shutting down its MCP product. Here's how to port your OpenAPI-to-MCP pipeline to mcp-use and Manufact Cloud — including when to ship a 1:1 server vs. a curated MCP App.
Building the mcp-use screenshot CLI
How we built the mcp-use screenshot CLI to close your agent's automatic feedback loop when developing MCP Apps
We Made MCP Testing Less Painful
Testing MCP servers is painful: slow install loops, behavior that differs across clients, and no good way to know if your agents are calling tools correctly. Here's how we fixed it.
Deploying Seven MCP Frameworks: A Field Report
Same echo + greet_widget example, seven MCP frameworks, one Manufact Cloud deploy pipeline. What broke, what surprised us, and per-framework deploy notes.
How to Deploy FastMCP to Production
How we deployed a FastMCP echo + Prefab greet_widget example to Manufact Cloud: GitHub connect, port 8000, and what breaks when the starter lockfile drifts.
How to Deploy an MCP Python Server to Production
Deploy steps for a FastMCP-based Python MCP app on Manufact Cloud, plus the reference server (echo + greet_widget) and DNS-rebinding gotchas behind the proxy.
How to Deploy an MCP TypeScript Server to Production
Manufact Cloud deploy for @modelcontextprotocol/sdk + ext-apps: build command, Express streamable HTTP, and the echo + greet_widget example we shipped.
How to Deploy mcp-use to Production
GitHub deploy for an mcp-use server with auto-discovered widgets: preset build/start, stateful transport notes, and the greet_widget example from the seven-framework report.
How to Deploy Skybridge to Production
Skybridge on Manufact Cloud: Node 24 image, Vite + tsc -b build, and the echo + greet_widget example we used in the field report.
How to Deploy tmcp to Production
tmcp HTTP transport on Manufact Cloud: npm run build, manual widget metadata, and the reference server from the seven-framework comparison.
How to Deploy xmcp to Production
xmcp file-based tools on Manufact Cloud: Rspack build, port 3001 quirk, and the echo + greet_widget example we deployed for the comparison.
mcp-use Tunnel: Test MCP Servers on ChatGPT and Claude
A stable public URL for your local MCP server, wired into the CLI and the Inspector, with the same subdomain across every session. No reinstalling connectors, no ngrok interstitials, no URL churn.
How to Submit an MCP App to ChatGPT
A field-by-field walkthrough of OpenAI's ChatGPT Apps submission form, with the prerequisites and rejection patterns that actually decide whether review moves quickly.
Ship an MCP App from your Next.js repo: two pipelines, one source tree
Run an MCP server as a separate Node process inside your Next.js repo: one install, one tsconfig, shared components and services, no sibling package.
How to Set Up OAuth in Your MCP Servers
Learn how to add OAuth authentication to your MCP server using mcp-use — from Dynamic Client Registration with WorkOS AuthKit to OAuth Proxy flows with Auth0, in just a few lines of code.
MCP Authentication: A Complete Guide
A deep dive into how authentication works in the Model Context Protocol, from OAuth 2.1 flows and client registration strategies to upstream API access patterns and what's coming next.
Manufact Raises $6.3M to Build the Cloud for MCP
Manufact (formerly mcp-use) has raised $6.3M led by Peak XV to build the cloud for MCP servers and MCP apps — letting developers ship to the 800M+ users of ChatGPT and Claude in under 60 seconds.
Supabase x mcp-use
Building MCP servers with mcp-use and deploying them on Supabase Edge Functions.
Building MCP Servers the Right Way
At mcp-use we built a lot of MCP servers in Python. The developer experience was subpar. So we built MCPServer with built-in inspector, router pattern, smart logging, and hot reload.
Creating an MCP Server with MCP Apps
Complete guide to building an MCP server with MCP Apps widget support, enabling rich interactive experiences in ChatGPT or Claude.
MCP 101: Principles of MCP Development with mcp-use
A comprehensive guide to understanding the Model Context Protocol, its architecture, and how to build scalable AI agents with mcp-use. Learn the fundamentals of MCP development and solve real-world challenges.
FastMCP Cloud Alternatives: Four MCP Hosting Paths
Compare four MCP deployment paths using runtime, authorization, operations, testing, and cost criteria.
MCP Server Security: A Practical Production Checklist
Practical MCP server security guidance for September 2026, from OAuth flows to per-tool authorization and rate limits.
MCP vs REST API for SaaS: When to Add an MCP Layer
Learn when a SaaS product needs an MCP layer, how it works with an existing REST API, and how to test a small set of agent tools.
How to Add MCP Support to a B2B SaaS Product
A practical guide to SaaS MCP tool design, tenant authorization, and client testing using your existing product services.
How to Test MCP Auth and UI in Claude and ChatGPT
Use a repeatable matrix to test MCP tools, authorization, and UI in real AI clients after protocol checks pass.
How to Build and Deploy an MCP Server
Build an MCP server with TypeScript, test it locally, and deploy it to a hosted endpoint. Includes setup commands and client testing.