Field notes
The MCPOrbit blog.
Product updates, engineering decisions, and field notes from the team building the desktop client for the Model Context Protocol.
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4 posts

Protocol
What the Model Context Protocol actually does
A short, honest field guide to the spec — what MCP standardises, what it doesn't, and where it sits in your stack.
6 min read
Engineering
Designing MCPOrbit's tool inspector
Every server's schema is different. Here's how we built one inspector that adapts to all of them — without losing precision.
8 min read
Field notes
Curiosity has a half-life
Why the friction between hearing about a server and actually trying it is the most underrated bottleneck in the MCP ecosystem.
4 min read

