Tag: mcp

Claude Skills vs MCP: What Each One Is For

Agent Skills package know-how, MCP servers package access. Here is how each one loads into context, what each one costs, and when your home lab needs which.

Blender MCP vs Headless bpy Scripts

Blender MCP is great for building one model with an agent watching screenshots. Headless bpy scripts win for batches, parallel agents, and automated checks.

Docker MCP Toolkit: Trust the Sandbox?

Docker MCP Toolkit sandboxes AI agent tools in containers. Here's exactly what that isolation stops, where it silently breaks, and how to configure it safely.

NetAlertX MCP: One Token, Twelve Tools

NetAlertX v26.9.0 ships a built-in MCP server with 12 tools. Learn how to wire it into Claude Code, what it exposes, and when to use Home Assistant instead.

Skeleton Key MCP vs One Token Per Box

Skeleton Key MCP swaps four narrow homelab tokens for one Vaultwarden vault and one OAuth consent flow. Here is what that buys you, and what it risks.

Proxmox MCP: Read-Only Beats Root

Two Proxmox MCP servers can query your cluster over chat, but the real safety boundary is a scoped PVEAuditor API token, not a config permission flag.

Home Assistant MCP: Server and Client

Home Assistant ships two MCP integrations, not one. One turns your house into a server for Claude and ChatGPT. The other is narrower than its name suggests.

MCP Servers: Tools for LLMs

Model Context Protocol turns your LLM into a tool-using agent, file access, APIs, your home lab. Build your first MCP server in under 50 lines of Python.