Changelog Interviews

MCP on Code Mode

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This week I’m talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong. Matt works on the Agents SDK and MCP at Cloudflare — we discuss how server-side Code Mode lets one MCP server expose all ~2,500 Cloudflare API endpoints in about 1,000 tokens of context, the dynamic Worker loader that runs model-written code safely in a V8 isolate, Matt’s own workflow with Claude, where memory fits into the future of agents, and his Zaggy git wrapper that keeps agents from force-pushing his repos.

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    • Featuring:

    • Matt Carey – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
    • Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

    Show Notes:

    Featured
    • Matt Carey on the Cloudflare blog
    • You’ve Been a Bad Agent
    • Cloudflare
    • Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens
    • Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
    • Cloudflare MCP Server
    • Cloudflare Agents SDK
    • Cloudflare Agents SDK on GitHub
      • Cloudflare platform
      • Dynamic Workers
      • Cloudflare Workers
      • Durable Objects
      • AI Gateway
      • Vectorize
        • MCP and code-mode references
        • Model Context Protocol
        • Introducing the Model Context Protocol
        • Code execution with MCP
        • CodeAct paper
        • GitHub MCP Server
        • Datadog MCP Server
        • Pydantic Monty
          • Coding agents and tools
          • Claude Code
          • Claude Code voice dictation
          • OpenCode
          • Cursor
          • OpenAI Codex CLI
          • Changesets
          • Handy
            • Agent memory and personal AI
            • Granola
            • Letta
            • Mastra
            • Supermemory
            • Poke
            • Pi coding agent
              • Homelab and infrastructure
              • Swamp Club
              • Proxmox VE
              • Tailscale
              • 1Password
              • K3s
              • Pi-hole
              • DuckDB
              • Apache Parquet
              • ClickHouse

                • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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