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Engineering

From API to n8n Node: How 0mcp Built NativeShip

00mcp

A product-development case study on how the 0mcp team built NativeShip to help SaaS teams shape, preview, build, and publish n8n community nodes from existing APIs

Oct 03, 2026

Guides

How to Prepare an OpenAPI Specification for MCP Tool Generation

KKelis

A practical preparation guide for SaaS teams that want to convert an OpenAPI specification into MCP tools, covering operation IDs, summaries, descriptions, schemas, server URLs, parameters, authentication, and pre-import review.

Sep 07, 2026

Engineering

How to Make an Existing API Usable by AI Agents with MCP

Kelis Shekhaliya

Learn how SaaS teams can make existing API capabilities discoverable and usable by AI agents with MCP, from API documentation and access control to testing, hosting, monitoring, and versioning.

Aug 21, 2026

Engineering

MCP API Wrapper: When Should You Wrap an Existing API?

Kelis Shekhaliya

Understand what an API wrapper does, why a thin wrapper is not enough for AI agents, and when to build custom MCP code or use a hosted API-to-MCP workflow.

Aug 21, 2026

Engineering

How API Changes Affect MCP Servers: Versioning and Safe Updates

Kelis Shekhaliya

Learn how API contract changes affect MCP tools, resources, and prompts, with a practical workflow for backward compatibility, testing, version control, rollback, and error handling.

Aug 21, 2026

Engineering

Hosted MCP Server vs Building In-House: What Should SaaS Teams Choose?

Kelis Shekhaliya

A practical build-vs-buy framework for choosing a hosted MCP server or building in-house, covering engineering effort, hosting, security, monitoring, maintenance, and product fit.

Aug 21, 2026

Engineering

How to Deploy an MCP Server for Production

Kelis Shekhaliya

Learn how to deploy an MCP server for production with local versus hosted decisions, Streamable HTTP, secure credentials, testing, monitoring, logs, analytics, latency, and safe updates.

Aug 19, 2026

Engineering

How to Test an MCP Server with MCP Inspector

Kelis Shekhaliya

Learn how to test an MCP server before production with MCP Inspector, including connections, tools, resources, prompts, authentication, schema errors, and a final checklist.

Aug 19, 2026

Engineering

API Authentication for MCP: API Keys, Bearer Tokens, and OAuth

Kelis Shekhaliya

A practical guide to API authentication for MCP, including credential pass-through, API keys, Bearer tokens, OAuth, least privilege, credential handling, and authentication testing.

Aug 19, 2026

Engineering

How to Choose Which API Endpoints to Expose as MCP Tools

Kelis Shekhaliya

A practical framework for choosing API endpoints to expose as MCP tools, with guidance on workflow fit, tool clarity, access control, least privilege, risk, and avoiding tool overload.

Aug 19, 2026

Engineering

Postman to MCP: Turn a Postman Collection into MCP Tools

Kelis Shekhaliya

Learn how to import a Postman collection, map saved requests to MCP tools, select safe operations, configure authentication, test calls, and use a hosted API-to-MCP workflow.

Aug 19, 2026

Engineering

OpenAPI Requirements for an API-to-MCP Server

Kelis Shekhaliya

A practical checklist for API owners preparing an OpenAPI or Swagger definition for an API-to-MCP server, including schemas, authentication, validation warnings, operation selection, and testing.

Aug 19, 2026