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Beyond iPaaS: Why Capabilities Are the Right Unit for an Agentic Integration Platform
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...
Releasing Ikanos with Ikanos - Turning a script into an agentic capability
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...
Dynamic Tool Discovery and the Limits of Finding the Right Tool — Why Retrieval Doesn't Fix a Raw MCP Surface
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...
The Capability Lifecycle — From Mocked APIs to Trusted Production Through Two Human Gates
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...
Capabilities Are Microservices for Agents — And They Work With Your Gateway
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...
The New MCP Spec Is a Breaking Change — And Your Ikanos Capabilities Don't Need Recertifying
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...
Voice Assistants and the 200-Tool Bottleneck — Why Your Agent Needs a Curated Capability, Not a Tool Dump
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...
Sync a Notion Spec into a GitHub Issue — With One Ikanos Capability, Not Two Vendor MCPs
July 17, 2026 · Jerome Louvel
Sync a Notion Spec into a GitHub Issue — With One Ikanos Capability, Not Two Vendor MCPs
The vendor MCPs for Notion and GitHub each expose everything and connect to nothing. Here's how a single Ikanos v1.0.0-beta2 capability picks four ...
The VS Code Extension for Spec-Driven Integration and Linting: Crafter 1.0 Beta 2
July 17, 2026 · Jerome Louvel
The VS Code Extension for Spec-Driven Integration and Linting: Crafter 1.0 Beta 2
The Naftiko beta 2 wave lands with a big upgrade to Crafter, our VS Code extension: OpenAPI support alongside Ikanos, configurable file detection, ...
Polychro 1.0 Beta 1: The Linter Your Agent Runs, Not the One Gating Your CI
July 1, 2026 · Jerome Louvel
Polychro 1.0 Beta 1: The Linter Your Agent Runs, Not the One Gating Your CI
Polychro v1.0.0-beta1 makes JavaScript ruleset functions work reliably in the native binary, fixes functionsDir resolution, ships the first complet...
Ikanos 1.0 Beta 1: The MCP Server Your Agent Needs, Not the One Your Vendor Ships
July 1, 2026 · Jerome Louvel
Ikanos 1.0 Beta 1: The MCP Server Your Agent Needs, Not the One Your Vendor Ships
Ikanos v1.0.0-beta1 ships Binary Content end-to-end, fixes the native CLI, and marks the first release stable enough for real integrations.
Telecommunications Signals — The Pipes Are Rebuilding Themselves
May 31, 2026 · Kin Lane
Telecommunications Signals — The Pipes Are Rebuilding Themselves
Naftiko Signals on Telecommunications shows the carriers that taught us what an API was — SS7, OSS/BSS, billing — now publicly rebuilding themselve...
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