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Updates, insights, and MCP know-how from the team at Stacklok
January 13, 2026
Governing MCP Servers in Cursor with Stacklok
Stacklok brings enterprise-grade security and governance to MCP servers in Cursor. Enforce policies, audit usage, and enable safe, powerful AI automation.
December 16, 2025
Introducing mcp-tef: Test MCP tool descriptions before they cause problems
mcp-tef is an open-source tool evaluation system that lets you test tool descriptions before deployment, with real LLM testing, similarity detection, and quality analysis.
December 11, 2025
Introducing Virtual MCP Server: Unified gateway for multi-MCP workflows
Aggregate multiple MCP servers into single endpoint with vMCP with integrated tool filtering, multi-system workflows, and centralized authentication.
December 10, 2025
Stacklok’s MCP Optimizer vs Anthropic’s Tool Search Tool: A head-to-head comparison
Both solutions tackle the critical problem of token bloat from excessive tool definitions. See how they stack up in a head-to-head test of tool selection accuracy.
November 19, 2025
Deploy an Okta-authenticated BigQuery MCP server on Kubernetes
Learn how to deploy an Okta-authenticated BigQuery MCP server using the ToolHive Operator. Includes workload identity federation, ngrok exposure, and VS Code integration.
November 06, 2025
Okta authentication for BigQuery MCP servers
Federate Okta identity to Google Cloud for BigQuery access, then deploy an MCP server with the ToolHive proxy handling authentication and token exchange.