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How to Distribute Your MCP Server Across ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor
A practical overview of distributing an MCP server through ChatGPT Apps, Anthropic's Connectors Directory, and the Cursor Marketplace.
Pietro Zullo·Co-founder·August 5, 2026
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How to add per-user tool permissions to your MCP server with mcp-use
Login names the caller, and a read-only user can still call your write tools until the tool checks.
Andrew Khadder·Founding Engineer·August 27, 2026
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MoChiPi: Connect Your MCP Servers Once
The easiest way to take your MCPs across clients.
Enrico Toniato·CTO·August 26, 2026
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The 8 Best MCP Deployment Platforms in 2026
Manufact, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Smithery, MintMCP, Stainless, Zapier MCP, and MCPHosting.io compared on languages, testing, analytics, auth, publishing checks, and developer workflow.
Luigi Pederzani·Co-founder·August 11, 2026
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MCP Deployment Platform Benchmark: 8 Platforms, 12 Metrics
Eight MCP platforms scored on 12 measurable metrics with a published rubric and a source link for every value. Manufact 95, Cloudflare 50, Smithery 44, MintMCP 42, Vercel 33.
Luigi Pederzani·Co-founder·August 11, 2026
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What are Skills over MCP?
Ship your Skills alongside your MCP Server
Andrew Khadder·Founding Engineer·August 11, 2026
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Build vs. buy: how to run MCP infrastructure yourself
An MCP server is easy to stand up and hard to operate. These are the five layers you take on when you run MCP in production yourself, and what a web app would get for free.
Luigi Pederzani·Co-founder·August 10, 2026
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Turn an OpenAPI spec into an MCP server
How to convert your API into an MCP Server with one line
Andrew Khadder·Founding Engineer·August 9, 2026
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View Tools in MCP Apps
An outline for a future post about updating a live MCP App view instead of creating a new view for every refinement.
Andrew Khadder·Founding Engineer·August 6, 2026
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How to Submit an MCP Server to Anthropic's Connectors Directory
Submit a remote MCP server to Claude, understand the automated community review, and check for common blockers before publishing.
Pietro Zullo·Co-founder·August 5, 2026
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How PredictLeads Avoided Weeks of MCP Marketplace Review
PredictLeads used Manufact's pre-submission checks to catch missing output schemas and oversized responses before review, avoiding weeks of blind resubmission.
Pranav Gunnam·GTM Lead·July 31, 2026
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mcp-use v2 The age of stateless MCP
MCP 2026-07-28 removes protocol-level sessions. Here is what changed in mcp-use v2, what we learned while rebuilding it, and what it enables for Manufact Cloud.
Enrico Toniato·CTO·July 29, 2026
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How AgentMail handles 100k+ agent tool calls with Manufact
AgentMail runs 100,000+ MCP tool calls a week on Manufact's managed infrastructure, going from paying customer to production server in one week.
Pietro Zullo·Co-founder·July 13, 2026
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