June 29, 2026·By Stride Techworks·11 min readRun the agent, keep the data: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels, explained for small teamsThe thing blocking your agent from production usually isn't the model — it's that the data can't leave the building. Anthropic's May 19 release splits the agent loop from tool execution and reaches private systems through an outbound-only tunnel. Here's what each piece actually is, whether you need it, and what to do if you don't have an enterprise contract.agent-systemsinfrastructureoperatorssecuritymcpon-prem
June 27, 2026·By Stride Techworks·11 min readMCP goes stateless on July 28. Here's the migration checklist.The biggest MCP revision since launch ships July 28. Sessions and the initialize handshake are gone. If you shipped a remote MCP server fast, some of your transport assumptions break. Here's what changes and the checklist to migrate without a fire drill.mcpagent-systemsinfrastructureoperatorsmigration
June 11, 2026·By Stride Techworks·11 min readYour agents just went on a meter: the Claude Agent SDK credit and how to not get wreckedOn June 15 Anthropic stops subsidizing programmatic Claude. Your Agent SDK, claude -p, GitHub Actions, and third-party agents move onto a separate dollar credit metered at full API rates. Here's exactly what changes, the math on what your credit actually buys, and the cost-engineering that keeps an agent stack economical once someone's finally counting the tokens.agent-systemsinfrastructureoperatorscost-engineeringclaude
June 8, 2026·By Stride Techworks·11 min readThe reliability gap: your AI demo works. Production is where it breaks.The model isn't your problem. The demo proves capability; production tests reliability, and they're not the same number. Here's why agents that look perfect fail quietly in front of real users — and the reliability-first work that closes the gap before a customer finds it.reliabilityagent-systemsproductionoperatorsinfrastructure
June 6, 2026·By Stride Techworks·9 min readYour MCP servers are production infrastructure. Treat them like it.In April a researcher showed that 200,000 MCP servers will run whatever command you hand them — and Anthropic called it expected behavior. If you wired up MCP fast, you now own an attack surface. Here's the short list of what to lock down.securitymcpagent-systemsinfrastructureoperators
May 10, 2026·By Stride Techworks·5 min readWhat we mean when we say operator stackThere's a gap between 'I'm using AI tools' and 'my AI tools are operating as a coherent system.' Here's how we think about closing it.operatorsinfrastructureagent-systems