AGENTS // FIELD GUIDE STATUS: ONLINE

A field guide for building with agents.

Tools, MCPs, recipes, and honest reviews for techies building with agents. Plain English. No vendor spin. Built by someone who actually ships this stuff for a living.

Browse Recipes MCP Health Board Explore Landscape
Pillars
10
active surfaces
Recipes
5
workflows scaffolded
MCPs Tracked
13
seed catalog
Sponsored Posts
0
no paid placement
PULSE
Anthropic ships Computer Use v3 with 30% lower latency MCP Spec 2.0 RFC drops — auth + streaming improvements Claude Skills hits GA, marketplace open AutoGen in maintenance mode — successor: Microsoft Agent Framework Microsoft Agent 365 GA next quarter OpenAI Apps SDK adoption: 12 new entries this week Cline crosses 50k stars on GitHub Google A2A protocol draft v0.4 published Cursor 0.45 ships background agents Anthropic ships Computer Use v3 with 30% lower latency MCP Spec 2.0 RFC drops — auth + streaming improvements Claude Skills hits GA, marketplace open AutoGen in maintenance mode — successor: Microsoft Agent Framework Microsoft Agent 365 GA next quarter OpenAI Apps SDK adoption: 12 new entries this week Cline crosses 50k stars on GitHub Google A2A protocol draft v0.4 published Cursor 0.45 ships background agents
▸ TEN PILLARS // SYSTEM SURFACES

Everything we cover, by surface.

Each pillar is a self-contained surface. Click a tile to land in its cockpit.

L01 5

Landscape

Where the agentic ecosystem came from, where it's going.
R02 5

Recipes

Real workflows. Multiple agents chained. Measured before / after.
M03 30

MCP Servers

30 servers worth your time, with live health signals.
T04 12

Tools

Honest reviews of agents techies actually use.
V05 2

Vendors

Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google — side-by-side, no spin.
S06 8

Safety

What does this agent actually access? Plain English risk lens.
P07 4

Standards

MCP, A2A, Apps SDK — what they are, when they matter.
L08 10

Learn

Explainers + glossary. Concepts in plain English with diagrams.
X09 1

Lab

Calculators, comparators, wizards. Tools that answer real questions.
Q10 10

FAQ

Big questions answered without vendor spin. Trust-building.
▸ FEATURED // RECIPE BAY

Real workflows. Measured before / after.

Other sites give you tool lists. We give you chained workflows that actually saved time.

Automate YouTube SEO across 30 videos

Three MCPs chained: rewrite titles in Sush's voice, push updates, verify cache.

Before 2 hrs / month
After 8 min
Cost / run $0.40 / run
playwright-mcp youtube-mcp cloudflare-mcp
Production Open recipe →

PR triage with 3 MCPs

Auto-labels, suggests reviewers, summarises diffs into Slack channel.

Before 45 min / day
After 4 min
Cost / run $0.18 / run
github-mcp slack-mcp claude-api
Production Open recipe →

Toolkit data freshness check

Cron-driven audit of TOML data files; flags stale entries before users hit them.

Before 4 hrs / month
After 0 min
Cost / run $0.05 / week
github-mcp filesystem-mcp claude-api
Production Open recipe →

Blog SEO audit at scale

Search-MCP scans live SERPs, returns gaps + suggested rewrites for each post.

Before 1 hr / post
After 5 min / post
Cost / run $0.12 / post
web-search-mcp cloudflare-mcp claude-api
Production Open recipe →
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▸ MCP HEALTH BOARD // SEED CATALOG

MCP servers worth your time.

Stars, weekly delta, last commit, status. Currently 13 servers in the seed catalog — auto-refresh pipeline activates on the next scheduled run.

SEED

MCP Health Board · top 6 by stars

Seed updated Wed, 06 May 2026 22:30:00 UTC
Server Category Stars Δ 7d Trend Last commit Status
github-mcp-server Dev 12.4k +320 2d ago Alive playwright-mcp Browser 8.1k +180 6h ago Alive filesystem-mcp Dev 6.7k +95 1d ago Alive postgres-mcp Data 5.2k +78 4d ago Alive slack-mcp Productivity 4.1k +52 3d ago Alive cloudflare-mcp Cloud 3.2k +45 3w ago Slowing
Full board
Alive
10
Slowing
2
Abandoned
1
DELTA

Tracked Trend · 7 weeks

+6 servers illustrative · pre-cron
▸ HONEST FAQ // BIG QUESTIONS

No vendor spin. Plain English.

Q.01

Is agentic AI hype?

Some of it. Here's how to tell.

 Q.02

Will MCP survive 18 months?

Probably. But watch the protocol war.

 Q.03

What can I build with $0?

More than you think. Here's a starter stack.

 + 7

All ten honest answers →

Real questions, no marketing voice.
WHY THIS EXISTS

Manifesto

The agentic AI space is exploding — and most of what's written about it is either marketing fluff, vendor-funded "thought leadership", or surface-level hype on social.

The Agentic Planet is the antidote: opinionated curation, plain English, honest reviews, and recipes you can actually run. Built by an engineer who deploys this stuff every day for a living — and writes about it because the gap is real.

— Sush · Copilot Solution Engineer · Auckland, NZ