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How I Built the MCP Server That Publishes This Blog, Part 2: What Broke and What It Taught Me
2026-09-0111
A tab closed before the save finished, a detector read the article it was publishing, and a default branch reported ok for platforms it had never heard of. Three failures, one shape: a tool answering for something it never checked.
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A Tool Call Returned Success and the Work Never Happened
2026-08-2613
Twelve live posts kept only 41% to 72% of their text, and every call returned ok. A post-mortem of silent tool failure in an MCP server: the race, the wrong lesson, and the check you can run.
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Reliability
Post-mortem
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