Engineering deep-dives, tutorials, and how-to guides for developers building with AI agents and MCP tools.
Most agent setups treat documents as RAG fodder — chunk, embed, retrieve at query time. Syncore Wiki is different: the agent incrementally writes a markdown wiki that compounds across sessions. Here's how it works and why we built it on git + SQLite FTS5 instead of a vector store.
Syncore Engineering
Most agents that need web search either pick one engine (Perplexity OR Firecrawl OR Grok) or punt the credential problem to the user. We built a gateway that lets agents use all three with shared keys, per-tier quotas, and a single Bearer token.
Syncore Engineering
Most social listening tools are dashboards. Syncore's version is the opposite: a set of source skills (X / Reddit / GitHub / LinkedIn) the agent composes on demand. No standing pipeline, no cron, no merged feed — and that's deliberate.
Syncore Engineering
Every developer building with Claude or Cursor hits the same wall: hours wasted on API keys, OAuth flows, and MCP config files before a single tool call works. Here's why, and how Syncore eliminates it.
Syncore Engineering
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard that lets AI assistants like Claude and Cursor call external tools — Gmail, GitHub, Notion, and more. Here's how it works, why it matters, and how to use it today.
Syncore Team
Most MCP credential setups store secrets in plaintext JSON. Syncore uses a device-bound master key in the OS keychain and atomic encrypted writes. Here's exactly how it works.
Syncore Engineering
What makes a good MCP tool manager? Local credential storage, multi-client support, zero API key friction, and proactive token refresh. Here's what to look for — and how Syncore stacks up against the criteria.
Syncore Team
Step-by-step tutorial: from zero to a Claude Code agent that can read emails, send Slack messages, and search Notion — all in under 5 minutes using Syncore.
Syncore Team
A complete guide to adding MCP tools to Claude Code — from understanding how MCP works in Claude Code, to installing Gmail, Slack, GitHub, and Notion, to fixing the most common setup problems.
Syncore Team
Nothing kills an AI agent workflow faster than a stale OAuth token mid-task. Here's exactly how Syncore's background daemon detects expiring tokens and refreshes them before your agent ever sees an error.
Syncore Engineering
Should you build custom API integrations for your AI agent, or adopt the Model Context Protocol? After building both, here's the technical and operational case for MCP — and where custom integrations still make sense.
Syncore Engineering
Cursor supports MCP natively since version 0.45. Here's how to configure Syncore's 50+ tools in Cursor so your AI pair programmer can read your emails, search your codebase's issues, and browse the web — all without leaving your editor.
Syncore Team