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SEP 05, 2026

Bridging Physical Audio to AI Agents: Building a Production Sonos MCP Server in Go

Controlling physical hardware through an LLM sounds straightforward until your agent burns 2,000 tokens on raw UPnP XML, drops commands on grouped follower speakers, or blasts volume at 100%. Built in anticipation of Sonos 27's official MCP server, here is how we engineered a resilient, zero-dependency Go MCP server for Sonos whole-home audio.

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AUG 23, 2026

How to Build a Production-Ready, Secure MCP Server in Go

Exposing MCP tools in production requires solving cold-start disconnects, unauthenticated ingress, and authorization latency. This field guide walks through building a secure, high-performance Go MCP server with dual-transport multiplexing, stateless Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1, and granular per-tool scopes.

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AUG 23, 2026

Grading the Agent, Not the Pixels: Spec-Driven Evaluation for Generative-Media MCP Agents

Evaluating generative-media AI agents on pixel and audio quality is a costly, slow, and defect-confounding trap. Here is how we reproduced Apple's Agent Seer framework across Google Veo, Nanobanana, and Lyria MCP servers, uncovered catastrophic Schema-Blindness in LLM judges, and fixed it with runtime capability matrices.

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