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Guides on permission-aware retrieval, reviews of the tools in this space, and news from building a condensed context layer in the open.

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Academy7 min read

Self Hosted MCP Gateway: What It Takes

A practical guide to self hosted mcp gateway: the questions, evidence and trial plan that make a sound decision.

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Academy7 min read

Mem0 Self Hosted: A Practical Setup Guide

A practical guide to mem0 self hosted: the questions, evidence and trial plan that make a sound decision.

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Academy7 min read

MCP Server Authentication: A Deployment Guide

A practical guide to mcp server authentication: the questions, evidence and trial plan that make a sound decision.

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Academy7 min read

Mem0 Open Source: What You Actually Operate

A practical guide to mem0 open source: the questions, evidence and trial plan that make a sound decision.

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Academy7 min read

MCP Server Security: A Review Checklist

A practical guide to mcp server security: the questions, evidence and trial plan that make a sound decision.

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Academy7 min read

MCP OAuth: A Practical Implementation Guide

A practical guide to mcp oauth: the questions, evidence and trial plan that make a sound decision.

Fibre optic cables plugged into a network switch in a server rack, standing in for the way an mcp proxy sits between many clients and many upstream servers
Academy8 min read

What Is an MCP Proxy? Pattern, Uses, and Limits

What an mcp proxy actually is, where it earns its keep, where it breaks down, and how governed access differs from transparent aggregation.

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Academy7 min read

Agent Gateway: A Practical Evaluation Guide

A practical guide to agent gateway: the questions, evidence and trial plan that make a sound decision.

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Academy11 min read

What Is an Agent Memory Framework? A Plain Guide

What an agent memory framework actually does: extraction, storage, retrieval, ranking, and entitlement, explained plainly with real examples.

A rack of servers in a server room, standing in for the self hosted agent memory infrastructure that needs backup, monitoring and re-indexing once it is running real traffic
Academy8 min read

Self Hosted Agent Memory: Lessons Learned in Prod

What actually breaks running self hosted agent memory for months: backup, re-indexing, cost creep, monitoring, and the on-call gotchas nobody documents.

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Academy8 min read

Best Agent Memory Frameworks in 2026: A Buyer's Guide

A factual comparison of the best agent memory frameworks in 2026: Mem0, Zep, Letta, Cognee, Supermemory and Contextely, on pricing, licence and hosting.

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Academy9 min read

The Enterprise MCP Adoption Checklist

A practical rollout plan for enterprise MCP: phases, owners, real 2026 survey data on what blocks adoption, and the governance step teams skip.

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Academy7 min read

MCP Server Monitoring: What Is Actually Worth an Alert

Most MCP monitoring alerts on token expiry that was never at risk. What actually fails quietly, and the narrow set of conditions worth an alert.

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Academy6 min read

MCP Security Explained: Risks, Data, and Fixes

Real mcp security data: over 40% of live servers run with no authentication. What actually goes wrong, with sources, and how to close it.

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Academy6 min read

Human in the Loop MCP: Why We Hold Writes for Approval

Why human in the loop mcp matters more for writes than for reads, and the exact order our action invoke lifecycle runs in, step by step.

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Academy6 min read

Self Hosted MCP Governance: What It Actually Costs

What self hosted mcp governance actually requires to run: the real environment variables, the one genuine dependency, and what breaks without it.

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Academy6 min read

MCP Authentication Patterns, and Where Each One Leaks

Four mcp authentication patterns in real use today, what each one actually proves, and the specific way each one fails once an agent is holding the token.

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Academy6 min read

MCP Authorization: Govern Access Per Person, Not Server

Why mcp authorization has to sit between the agent and the data, not at the server connection, and how per-person entitlement actually works.

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Academy7 min read

How to Choose Enterprise Search Software in 2026

A practical checklist for picking enterprise search software in 2026: entitlement, freshness, self-hosting and the questions that actually matter.

An abstract network of glowing connections representing how ai enterprise search retrieves and links company data
Academy6 min read

AI Enterprise Search Explained: RAG and Permissions

How AI enterprise search actually works: retrieval, synthesis, and why permissions have to be checked before an answer is written, not after.

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Academy7 min read

Permission Aware RAG: A Practical Guide

What permission aware rag actually means, how retrieval-time entitlement differs from redaction, and how to build or buy it properly.

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Academy8 min read

How to Set Up Self Hosted AI Memory, Step by Step

A practical, step-by-step guide to self hosted ai memory: Docker, your database, an LLM key, your first source, and entitlement scopes.

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Academy9 min read

Context Engineering 101: Why Stuffing Prompts Fails

Context engineering explained plainly for chatbots and AI agents: why more text makes answers worse, and what to do instead.

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Academy6 min read

Company Knowledge Base AI: A Real-World Case Study

An illustrative case study of a 90-person logistics company moving from scattered systems to a company knowledge base ai an assistant can trust.