How to Build Your First MCP Server: Lessons From Shipping Three
Three MCP servers later, the hard part was never the protocol. It was deciding what each server owns, what its tools are called, and what it refuses to do in a single call.
Three MCP servers later, the hard part was never the protocol. It was deciding what each server owns, what its tools are called, and what it refuses to do in a single call.
A skill is instructions, an MCP server is a new ability, and a plugin is packaging for other people. Three questions tell you which one your next job actually needs.
The word server sends business owners into a procurement meeting they do not need. Here is what an MCP server actually is, in plain English, and what it can do inside your company.
An MCP server gives an AI assistant hands, a skill gives it a procedure, and a plugin ships both to your team. Here is how the three layers fit together, with a working example of each from our own open-source tools.
A free, open-source control room from IndiaNIC: watch and drive your terminals, AI coding sessions and every machine you own from one browser tab or your phone, with no VPN and no open ports.
Analyze DeepSeek Harness's explosive GitHub growth, challenging proprietary AI coding tools. Discover its modular power as an open-source alternative.
The writing was never my bottleneck — the plumbing was. How Byline, IndiaNIC's open-source MCP server, took the last mile of publishing off my desk across two Ghost blogs.
The MCP server publishes to Ghost and WordPress and ships documented platform behaviour from live testing.
Byline is now MIT-licensed. What it refuses to do turned out to matter more than what it writes.
Explore Voicebox, an AI innovation. Understand its business value, use cases, and how it compares to solutions today. Unlock AI's potential.
Explore OpenMythos, the open-source project reconstructing Anthropic's Claude Mythos with PyTorch. Discover its implications for AI accessibility and innovation.
An analysis of OpenAI's technical deep-dive on the 'agent loop' architecture, framing it as a blueprint for developer transparency and a precedent for AI coding tools.
Three MCP servers later, the hard part was never the protocol. It was deciding what each server owns, what its tools are called, and what it refuses to do in a single call.
Sandeep Mundra · 12 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
A skill is instructions, an MCP server is a new ability, and a plugin is packaging for other people. Three questions tell you which one your next job actually needs.
Sandeep Mundra · 11 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
The word server sends business owners into a procurement meeting they do not need. Here is what an MCP server actually is, in plain English, and what it can do inside your company.
Sandeep Mundra · 11 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
An MCP server gives an AI assistant hands, a skill gives it a procedure, and a plugin ships both to your team. Here is how the three layers fit together, with a working example of each from our own open-source tools.
Sandeep Mundra · 10 Sep 2026 · 10 min read
A free, open-source control room from IndiaNIC: watch and drive your terminals, AI coding sessions and every machine you own from one browser tab or your phone, with no VPN and no open ports.
Sandeep Mundra · 10 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
Analyze DeepSeek Harness's explosive GitHub growth, challenging proprietary AI coding tools. Discover its modular power as an open-source alternative.
IndiaNIC · 19 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
The writing was never my bottleneck — the plumbing was. How Byline, IndiaNIC's open-source MCP server, took the last mile of publishing off my desk across two Ghost blogs.
Jigar Panchal · 11 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
The MCP server publishes to Ghost and WordPress and ships documented platform behaviour from live testing.
Sandeep Mundra · 3 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
Byline is now MIT-licensed. What it refuses to do turned out to matter more than what it writes.
Sandeep Mundra · 3 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Explore Voicebox, an AI innovation. Understand its business value, use cases, and how it compares to solutions today. Unlock AI's potential.
IndiaNIC · 3 May 2026 · 11 min read
Explore OpenMythos, the open-source project reconstructing Anthropic's Claude Mythos with PyTorch. Discover its implications for AI accessibility and innovation.
IndiaNIC · 21 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
An analysis of OpenAI's technical deep-dive on the 'agent loop' architecture, framing it as a blueprint for developer transparency and a precedent for AI coding tools.
IndiaNIC · 24 Jan 2026 · 5 min read
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