Meet the GitHub MCP Registry: The fastest way to discover MCP Servers
This is your new home base for discovering MCP servers. Learn how we’re working with the broader community on MCP publication and discovery.
SerpApi: A Complete API For Fetching Search Engine Data — Smashing Magazine
From competitive SEO research and monitoring prices to training AI and parsing local geographic data, real-time search results power smarter apps. Tools like SerpApi make it easy to pull, customize, and integrate this data directly into your app or website.
Functional Personas With AI: A Lean, Practical Workflow — Smashing Magazine
For too long, personas have been created with considerable effort, only to offer limited value. Paul Boag shows how to breathe new life into this stale UX asset and demonstrates that it’s possible to create truly useful functional personas in a lightweight way.
AI agents at scale: Rox’s Vercel-powered revenue operating system
Is the app layer where AI proves its value?
The next leap in AI won’t come from new models, but from an app layer that makes the technology more intuitive and useful for everyone.
GitHub Copilot coding agent 101: Getting started with agentic workflows on GitHub
Delegate it a task, and coding agent can independently write, run, and test code. Here’s how you can make the most of it.
A framework for pricing AI products
While businesses are rapidly building AI products, monetization remains a challenge. In this post, we share a framework for building a successful pricing strategy with key decision points on charge metrics, billing models, and guardrails.
The second wave of MCP: Building for LLMs, not developers
The second wave of MCP, building for LLMs, not developers. Explore the evolution of MCP as it shifts from developer-focused tools to LLM-native integrations. Discover the future of AI connectivity.
How to debug a web app with Playwright MCP and GitHub Copilot
Reproduce and debug web app issues with ease using the Playwright MCP server and GitHub Copilot.
Building smarter interactions with MCP elicitation: From clunky tool calls to seamless user experiences
Explore how MCP elicitation transforms AI tool interactions by gathering missing information upfront.
5 tips for writing better custom instructions for Copilot
This guide offers five essential tips for writing effective GitHub Copilot custom instructions, covering project overview, tech stack, coding guidelines, structure, and resources, to help developers get better code suggestions.
Spec-driven development with AI: Get started with a new open source toolkit
Developers can use their AI tool of choice for spec-driven development with this open source toolkit.
A New Ranking Framework for Better Notification Quality on Instagram
We’re sharing how Meta is applying machine learning (ML) and diversity algorithms to improve notification quality and user experience. We’ve introduced a diversity-aware notification ranking framework to reduce uniformity and deliver a more varied and engaging mix of notifications. This new framework reduces the volume of notifications and drives higher engagement rates through more diverse […] Re
The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals
By mid-2025, training drives nearly 80% of AI crawling, while referrals to publishers (especially from Google) are falling. GPTBot and ClaudeBot surged, Amazonbot and Bytespider collapsed, and crawl-to-refer ratios show AI consumes far more than it sends back.
Under the hood: Exploring the AI models powering GitHub Copilot
Learn how GitHub Copilot’s evolving models and infrastructure center developer choice and power agentic workflows.
Prompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI — Smashing Magazine
Prompting is more than giving AI some instructions. You could think of it as a design act, part creative brief and part conversation design. This second article on AI augmenting design work introduces a designerly approach to prompting: one that blends creative briefing, interaction design, and structural clarity.
Make Your Website Conversational for People and Agents with NLWeb and AutoRAG
Bring conversational search to your website so people and AI agents can ask natural language questions and get direct answers. With NLWeb, an open project by Microsoft, and Cloudflare AutoRAG, conversational search is now a one-click setup for your website.
A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry
We are extending AI-related insights on Cloudflare Radar with new industry-focused data and a breakdown of bot traffic by purpose, such as training or user action. These new views help website owners better understand the impact of AI crawlers.
The age of agents: cryptographically recognizing agent traffic
Cloudflare now lets websites and bot creators use Web Bot Auth to segment agents from verified bots, making it easier for customers to allow or disallow the many types of user and partner directed bots the explosion of AI agents has created.
The next step for content creators in working with AI bots: Introducing AI Crawl Control
Cloudflare launches AI Crawl Control (formerly AI Audit) and introduces easily customizable 402 HTTP responses. Instead of blocking crawlers outright, content creators can now send "Payment Required" responses with custom messages, creating direct communication channels for AI partnerships.
From Black Box to Blueprint
A common enterprise problem: crucial legacy systems become “black boxes”—key to operations but opaque and risky to touch. We worked with a client to use AI-assisted reverse engineering to reconstruct functional specifications from UI elements, binaries, and data lineage to overcome analysis paralysis. We developed a methodical “multi-lens” approach—starting from visible artifacts, enriching increm
Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development
I’m about to head away from looking after this site for a few weeks (part vacation, part work stuff). As I contemplate some weeks away from the daily routine, I feel an urge to share some scattered thoughts about the state of LLMs and AI.
How we accelerated Secret Protection engineering with Copilot
Learn how the Secret Protection engineering team collaborated with GitHub Copilot coding agent to expand validity check coverage.
AI Gateway now gives you access to your favorite AI models, dynamic routing and more — through just one endpoint
AI Gateway simplifies AI app development with unified billing, secure key storage, and dynamic routing. Gain observability and control over costs, API keys, and traffic, connecting to major AI providers through a single endpoint.
How Cloudflare runs more AI models on fewer GPUs: A technical deep-dive
In order to support a growing catalog of AI models while maximizing GPU utilization, Cloudflare built an internal platform called Omni. This platform uses lightweight isolation and memory over-commitment to run multiple AI models on a single GPU, allowing us to serve inference requests closer to users and improve overall availability across our network.
Building your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI
CLI coding agents are a fundamentally different tool to chatbots or autocomplete tools - they're agents that can read code, run tests, and update a codebase. While commercial tools are impressive, they don't understand the particular context of our environment and the eccentricities of our specific project. Instead we can build our own coding agent by assembling open source tools, using our specif
How to use GitHub Copilot on github.com: A power user’s guide
Explore how to use GitHub Copilot on github.com to automate tasks, assign agents, prototype ideas, and streamline your entire workflow — all without an IDE.
Introducing Cloudflare Application Confidence Score For AI Applications
Cloudflare will provide confidence scores within our application library for Gen AI applications, allowing customers to assess their risk for employees using shadow IT.
Securing the AI Revolution: Introducing Cloudflare MCP Server Portals
We’re excited to announce Cloudflare MCP Server Portals are now available in Open Beta. MCP Server Portals are a new capability that enable you to centralize, secure, and observe every MCP connection in your organization. This feature is part of Cloudflare One, our secure access service edge (SASE) platform that helps connect and protect your workspace.
Conversation: LLMs and Building Abstractions
Unmesh and Martin exchanged some emails about building abstractions while working with an LLM. They talk about the influence of Brooks's framing of essential and accidental complexity, and how this carries over to thinking of programming as both growing and applying abstractions. An LLM is useful in both modes of working, but has to be used differently. We can't reduce growing abstractions to a st
Building production-ready agentic systems: Lessons from Shopify Sidekick (2025) - Shopify
Learn how we evolved our AI assistant architecture and built robust evaluation frameworks for real-world deployment
Cloudflare Launching AI Miniseries for Developers (and Everyone Else They Know)
AI Avenue tackles fears, showcases AI's potential, and highlights positive human augmentation stories, even allowing hands-on interaction.
Building your first MCP server: How to extend AI tools with custom capabilities
Learn Model Context Protocol by building a turn-based game server that shows how to extend GitHub Copilot with custom tools, resources, and prompts.
A Week In The Life Of An AI-Augmented Designer — Smashing Magazine
If you are new to using AI in design or curious about integrating AI into your UX process without losing your human touch, this article offers a grounded, day-by-day look at introducing AI into your design workflow.
AI-powered prototyping with design systems
Why AI-native design systems unlock true brand-ready, production-aligned prototyping for teams using v0
How we built AI face cropping for Images
AI face cropping for Images automatically crops around faces in an image. Here’s how we built this feature on Workers AI to scale for general availability.
The Double-Edged Sustainability Sword Of AI In Web Design — Smashing Magazine
AI has introduced huge efficiencies for web designers and is frequently being touted as the key to unlocking sustainable design and development. But do these gains outweigh the environmental cost of using energy-hungry AI tools?
Agents panel: Launch Copilot coding agent tasks anywhere on GitHub
Delegate coding tasks to Copilot and track progress wherever you are on GitHub. Copilot works in the background, creates a pull request, and tags you for review when finished.
GPT-5 in GitHub Copilot: How I built a game in 60 seconds
How GitHub’s new MCP server and GPT-5 are revolutionizing developer workflows — with live build examples.
The three types of AI bot traffic and how to handle them
Bots account for over 20% of all web traffic. A quarter of that is AI crawlers alone. But not all bots are bad. Some are key to how your site gets discovered. Learn how AI bots shape visibility and what happens if you block them.
The top industries and business models using AI for fraud prevention
Certain industries and business models are embracing AI-powered fraud tools at significantly higher rates. Understanding which types of companies are leading this shift—and why—offers insights into which strategies are most effective.
Designing With AI, Not Around It: Practical Advanced Techniques For Product Design Use Cases — Smashing Magazine
Prompting isn’t just about writing better instructions, but about designing better thinking. Ilia and Marina explore how advanced prompting can empower different product & design use cases, speeding up your workflow and improving results, from research and brainstorming to testing and beyond. Let’s dive in.
How to use GitHub Copilot to level up your code reviews and pull requests
Discover practical ways GitHub Copilot streamlines code reviews, pull requests, and daily engineering tasks with real prompts, examples, and workflow tips from our engineering team.
Junior developers aren’t obsolete: Here’s how to thrive in the age of AI
The role of junior developer is evolving. If you’re at this stage in your career, here’s how to keep up and stand out.
Vercel collaborates with OpenAI for GPT-5 launch
The GPT-5 family of models released today, are now available through AI Gateway and are in production on our own v0.dev applications. Thanks to OpenAI, Vercel has been testing these models for a few weeks in v0, Next.js, AI SDK, and Vercel Sandbox.
Design systems and AI: Why MCP servers are the unlock
How design systems can be a productivity coefficient for AI powered workflows
Diff Risk Score: AI-driven risk-aware software development
The state of the research Diff Risk Score (DRS) is an AI-powered technology built at Meta that predicts the likelihood of a code change causing a production incident, also known as a SEV. Built on a fine-tuned Llama LLM, DRS evaluates code changes and metadata to produce a risk score and highlight potentially risky code […]
Introducing Vercel MCP: Connect Vercel to your AI tools
Vercel now has an official hosted MCP server (aka Vercel MCP), which you can use to connect your favorite AI tools, such as Claude or VS Code, directly to Vercel.
Partnering with OpenAI to bring their new open models onto Cloudflare Workers AI
OpenAI’s newest open-source models are now available on Cloudflare Workers AI on Day 0, with support for Responses API, Code Interpreter and Web Search (coming soon).
How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation?
We ran a series of experiments to explore how far Generative AI can currently be pushed toward autonomously developing high-quality, up-to-date software without human intervention. As a test case, we created an agentic workflow to build a simple Spring Boot application end to end. We found that the workflow could ultimately generate these simple applications, but still observed significant issues
MCP UI: Breaking the text wall with interactive components (2025) - Shopify
MCP UI extends the Model Context Protocol to enable AI agents to return fully interactive UI components. It solves the critical challenge that commerce experiences require visual and interactive elements like product selectors, image galleries, and cart flows. This open-source protocol allows agents to embed commerce components while maintaining control through an intent-based messaging system, de
Automate your project with GitHub Models in Actions
Learn how to integrate AI features with GitHub Models directly in GitHub Actions workflows.
Building a human-computer interface for everyone
What if you could control any device using only subtle hand movements? New research from Meta’s Reality Labs is pointing even more firmly toward wrist-worn devices using surface electromyography (sEMG) becoming the future of human-computer interaction. But how do you develop a wrist-worn input device that works for everyone? Generalization has been one of the […]
Onboarding your AI peer programmer: Setting up GitHub Copilot coding agent for success
Learn how to configure Copilot coding agent’s environment, optimize project structure, use custom instructions, and extend its capabilities with MCP servers.
AI SDK 5
Introducing type-safe chat, agentic loop control, new specification, tool enhancements, speech generation, and more.
A practical guide on how to use the GitHub MCP server
Upgrade from a local MCP Docker image to GitHub’s hosted server and automate pull requests, continuous integration, and security triage in minutes — no tokens required.
Scaling for impact: How GitHub Copilot supercharges smallholder farmers
Empowering 10 million farm families by 2030 to generate $1 billion in new revenue. How GitHub helps One Acre Fund’s mission — driving real impact across Africa.
The White House AI Action Plan: a new chapter in U.S. AI policy
The White House AI Action Plan is a pivotal policy document outlining the current administration's priorities and deliverables in AI to establish American AI as the gold standard for AI worldwide.
How to build secure and scalable remote MCP servers
More context can mean more attack surfaces for your projects. Be prepared for what lies ahead with this guide.
Prompt, prototype, perfect: Figma Make is now available to all users
Today, all Figma AI features and products are moving out of beta, including Figma Make—which is now available for everyone to try.