# MCP — Sylvain Kalache

URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/mcp

My writing, talks, podcasts, and projects about MCP.

## Selected work

- [Why Are Agent Protocols Like MCP and A2A Needed?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/why-are-agent-protocols-like-mcp-and-a2a-needed.md) (2025-05-21; The New Stack): Breaking down the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) standards — why interoperability matters for the next wave of AI agents.
- [Doom Agent Arena](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/doom-agent-arena.md) (2026-05-11; GitHub): An MCP-native arena that pits AI models against each other in real-time Doom matches to benchmark spatial planning, adaptation, speed, accuracy, and cost.
- [MCP-Sylvain-Kalache](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/mcp-sylvain-kalache.md) (2026-02-28; GitHub): A personal MCP server that exposes my portfolio data — articles, podcasts, talks, panels, GitHub projects, news, bio, timeline, and live weather — as queryable tools for AI agents.
- [Developers lose focus 1,200 times a day — how MCP could change that](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/developers-lose-focus-1-200-times-a-day-how-mcp-could-change-that.md) (2025-12-22; VentureBeat): Context switching kills developer productivity. How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) can reduce tool fragmentation and keep engineers in flow.
- [MCPs and the Next Wave of Reliability w/ Rootly AI, WorkOS, Block, Microsoft & Groq](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/mcps-and-the-next-wave-of-reliability-w-rootly-ai-workos-block-microsoft-groq.md) (2025-08-28; Rootly AI Labs): Panel at the AWS GenAI Loft in San Francisco on MCPs, incident automation, observability, and generative AI tooling for reliability.
- [The Future of AI-Driven Reliability](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/the-future-of-ai-driven-reliability.md) (2025-04-24; Rootly AI Labs): Panel with leaders from a16z, Y Combinator, and Google Cloud on how MCP servers and agent-to-agent communication are revolutionizing developer tools. Demos from Anthropic, Sentry, Postman, and Browserbase.
- [Incident Vibing: The Self-Healing System](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/incident-vibing-the-self-healing-system.md) (2025-04-23; Adventures in DevOps): Tracing the arc from ingesting logs at LinkedIn/SlideShare to LLM-driven RCA today. How fine-tuning, MCP, and incident vibing are reshaping SRE.
- [Rootly-MCP-server](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/rootly-mcp-server.md) (2025-03-01; GitHub): An MCP server for Rootly — enabling AI agents to interact with incident management workflows via the Model Context Protocol.

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