August 22, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Platform Engineering and Context Engineering Converge on the Same Unit

In Thinking in Platforms, Kaspar von Grünberg and Luca Galante define the molecular unit of a platform as a path: an input, an interface, a capabil...

August 20, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

It Was Never APIs or MCP. It's REST APIs or MCP APIs.

That MCP complements your APIs rather than replacing them is now the standard answer, and it is correct. It is also one layer short of the interest...

August 18, 2026 · Brian Sloane

Beta4 Is Here. Upgrade All Your MCP Servers With One Line.

Three weeks ago we wrote that the 2026-07-28 MCP revision was the biggest breaking change since the protocol launched, and that capabilities runnin...

August 17, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Agents Undid Twenty Years of API Curation. Put It Back with Capabilities.

Few complained that Stripe has hundreds of endpoints, because a developer picked the three they needed once, at design time, and froze the choice i...

August 13, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Five Fragmented Specs, One Ikanos Capability

OpenAPI and Open Collection describe how you call an API. Arazzo describes how calls compose into a flow. MCP and SKILL.md describe how something i...

August 10, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Beyond iPaaS: Why Capabilities Are the Right Unit for an Agentic Integration Platform

Five vendors have now named this category, and they broadly agree agents need governed access to enterprise systems. They disagree on what actually...

August 6, 2026 · Farah Trigui

Releasing Ikanos with Ikanos - Turning a script into an agentic capability

Every release follows the same ritual: check the open PRs, cut the tags, watch the workflows, publish the notes, announce the freeze. None of it is...

July 31, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Dynamic Tool Discovery and the Limits of Finding the Right Tool — Why Retrieval Doesn't Fix a Raw MCP Surface

Dynamic tool discovery is the industry's answer to the tool-dump problem: don't put 200 schemas in context, let the agent search for the one it nee...

July 30, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

The Capability Lifecycle — From Mocked APIs to Trusted Production Through Two Human Gates

Agents can draft an integration in seconds — but you can't hand seconds-old code the production keys, and the real risk isn't one bad call, it's an...

July 27, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Capabilities Are Microservices for Agents — And They Work With Your Gateway

Enterprises that standardized on microservices and an API gateway like Apigee already have the right foundation. An Ikanos capability is a specific...

July 24, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

The New MCP Spec Is a Breaking Change — And Your Ikanos Capabilities Don't Need Recertifying

The 2026-07-28 MCP release candidate is the largest revision since launch — stateless transport, first-class extensions, hardened auth, and a forma...

July 23, 2026 · Jerome Louvel

Voice Assistants and the 200-Tool Bottleneck — Why Your Agent Needs a Curated Capability, Not a Tool Dump

A real-time voice assistant that can 'do anything' has to reason over hundreds of tools on every turn — the single worst place to spend latency and...