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Curated guides for AI developers: best tools, agents, and MCP connectors.
Trace a Reviewed Article from GitLab to a Public Page
Follow a reviewed Markdown article through a GitLab branch, merge request, deployment, and public page check with concrete evidence at each step.
Running a Model Locally and Talking to It: Runtimes, Speed, and the Gateway in Between
Independent tooling for local LLM inference: runtimes that serve OpenAI-compatible endpoints from your own hardware, memory tricks that make a large model fit, benchmarks that prove the GPU did the work, and gateways that decide what an agent may reach.
Running Coding Agents in Your Terminal: Multiplexing, Constraining, Auditing
Independent tooling for running coding agents from a terminal: multiplexers that keep several agents visible at once, constraint layers that stop a small fix becoming a rewrite, sandboxes for untrusted binaries, and tools that record why the agent wrote what it wrote.
Cutting Your LLM Bill: Tools That Measure, Compress, and Route
Independent tooling for LLM cost control: spend dashboards, trace-level waste detectors, context compressors, prompt-complexity routers, and self-hosted gateways that pick the cheapest model your policy allows.
MCP Server Tooling: Testing, Securing, and Managing Your MCP Stack
Independent tooling for the Model Context Protocol: spec-compliance probes, traffic inspectors, security scanners, OAuth gateways, container isolation, and server managers.
Best MCP Servers for Cursor IDE in 2026
Top 8 MCP connectors that supercharge your Cursor workflow - from project management and AI tasks to memory persistence and API testing.
Best MCP Servers for Automated Code Review in 2026
MCP servers that help AI assistants review code quality, security vulnerabilities, and test coverage automatically.
Best MCP Servers for DevOps & Infrastructure in 2026
MCP servers for managing cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and deployment through AI assistants.
Best MCP Servers for Data Engineering in 2026
MCP servers for working with databases, data pipelines, analytics, and machine learning through AI assistants.
Best MCP Servers for Security Engineering in 2026
MCP servers that help security engineers audit code, manage access control, scan for vulnerabilities, and secure infrastructure with AI.
Spark Drops - Weekly AI Tools Newsletter
A weekly digest of the best new AI tools, agents, prompts, and MCP connectors from the Spark catalog. Hand-picked, verified, and ready to install.