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Agentic Interoperability for Website Owners: AI User Experience (AI UX)
I've been keeping a close eye on the emerging subject of "agentic interoperability" across all my recent build projects. In layman's terms, that's the ability for AI agents to do things for you on your behalf - particularly inside SaaS…
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Implementing WebMCP on a Recruitment Website
Thinking about what, exactly, the future of a website "looks" like in the agentic era is a challenging proposition. It might be that in most cases, our future viewers/readers/customers can do everything, from their chatbot of preference…
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Yet Another Memory MCP? That's Not the Memory You're Looking For
I was considering building my own memory system for Claude Code after some early, failed affairs with memory MCPs. In therapy we're encouraged to think about how we think. A discussion about metacognition in a completely unrelated world…
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Cut Your Claude Code Token Use by Offloading Work to Cheaper Models with Houtini-LM
I built houtini-lm for people worried that their Anthropic bill might be getting out of hand. I'd leave Claude Code running overnight on big refactors, wake up, and wince at the token count. A huge chunk of that spend was going on tasks…
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What Is an MCP Server? And Why It Matters for AI Tool Use
MCP servers turn Claude Desktop from a chat window into a workspace where applications actually run. Here's what Model Context Protocol is, how it works, and why 97 million monthly SDK downloads suggest this isn't just hype.
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Better Search Console: Analyse Your Google Search Console Data with Interactive Dashboards
Every MCP server that connects to Google Search Console has the same fundamental limitation. The API returns a maximum of 1,000 rows per request. One or two requests in, and you've consumed your context window. This problem is quite…
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Best MCP Servers for Claude Desktop (2026)
I spend most of my working day in Claude Desktop. Research, writing, data analysis, managing apps I've built - it's all in there. And when you pair it with the right extensions, honestly, it's astonishing what you can get done. While…
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Building a Free, Open Source SEO Crawler for LLM Consumption
I wanted to build on my experience working with the MCP protocol SDK to see just how far we can extend an AI assistant's capabilities. I decided that I'd quite like to build a crawler to check my site's "technical SEO" health and came…
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Generate a Tone of Voice Guide with Voice Analyser MCP
While AI will never replace human creativity, it can certainly help with productivity. Today I'm sharing my Voice Analyser MCP - an experimental tone of voice guideline generator that runs from a website's XML sitemap. The point of this…
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AI SEO - A Tool to Help You Improve Your Content for AI Search
Not that long ago, I was searching for an answer to a question about a USB device and whether it needed a separate PSU. This happened to be a topic very close to my heart, and owning a handful of affiliate content sites on the topic, this…
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Working with AI: Using Gmail in Claude
I've got a client over in Australia who are *just* warming up after a lengthy Christmas break. It's an SAP B1 integration with Shopify and Onetimpim - many moving parts! My client emailed this morning asking for a catch-up meeting and…
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Query Fan-Out MCP for AI Search Optimisation
I've been building a group of content optimisation tools for the past six months (some availabe on houtini's github, some coming soon). It's really clear that traditional keyword research is now quite broken and outdated for AI search. Not…
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AI in Finance: Using "Financial Modeling Prep" MCP for Real-Time Market Data in Claude
For fun, I thought I'd play with an MCP server for financial data, but getting it working in Claude as an MCP turned out not to be particularly straightforward. Not because the Financial Modeling Prep API is complex, not the MCP server I…
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How to Use Firecrawl in Claude Desktop
I've spent the past few months building Yubhub (launch coming soon), a job aggregator that feeds our Motorsport jobs site, fluidjobs.com. The scraper needs to pull job listings from career sites across Formula 1, automotive engineering…
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Desktop Commander: Give Claude Full Control of Your Computer (Setup Guide)
When I discovered Desktop Commander, it quickly become the everything of how I work with Claude. Put simply, this MCP solves a specific, annoying problem: Claude can tell you what to do, but without access to your filesystem, that's all it…
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Claude Desktop: Features, Setup & Requirements
In my work, I live two lives. First, I'm a web worker; I roll out websites, advise on search, or consult and help my clients come up with innovative app ideas. The second? I've been working on ways to make AI use influence productivity…
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How to Set Up Claude Desktop with Google Search Console MCP
Claude Desktop's ability to support access to API services using Model Context Protocol (MCP) is impressive stuff. And yes, that means you can get Claude connected to the Search Console API and query it to answer your questions. Better…
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GEO Analyser: Analyse Your Content for Generative Engine Optimisation
I've been watching AI search traffic for the past year, and it's become impossible to ignore. Not because traditional Google is dead - it's not - but because ChatGPT referrals jumped from 14,500 visits per month in early 2024 to over…
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How to Setup the DataForSEO MCP with Claude Desktop
DataForSEO is an API service that gives you programmatic access to the type of SEO data you'd normally have to click through tools like Ahrefs or SEMrush to access. Data like search engine listings, LLM visibility, keyword volumes…
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Chrome DevTools MCP: AI-Powered Website Debugging
Learn how Chrome DevTools MCP transforms website debugging from manual detective work into AI-powered analysis. Get expert-level insights on Core Web Vitals, SEO issues, and performance optimization in minutes instead of hours.
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How to Add an MCP Server to Claude Desktop
For almost all of us, the concept of adding an MCP to your AI assistant is completely new. This is ok, if you're reading this, I think you've come to the right place. I'm going to quickly and simply explain how to add an MCP server to…
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Gemini MCP for Claude Desktop
While this might not appear to be my first post on Houtini, it is a particualrly special one. I've had Houtini-LM live for around 3 weeks, built a website, written the user guide, so all in all I've had a very productive time. But, now the…
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