Self-host Hister: your personal search engine
Run Hister on a VPS to search the full text of pages you visited and files you keep: binary and Docker installs, TLS, a login, and the MCP endpoint.
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Self-host openGym, a workout tracker
Deploy openGym on a VPS with Docker Compose: a pinned git tag, TLS before the first passkey, where the data lives, and the read-only MCP server.
DeepSeek Harness plugins worth installing
Five DeepSeek Harness plugins that change how a rented server behaves: budget caps, tool permission rules, injection scanning, durable memory, LAN access.
Run an SEO audit agent on your VPS
The seo CLI turns a spare VPS into an SEO audit box: a systemd timer runs the crawl, and your agent queries the results over a local MCP server.
Self-host the SandBase agent runtime
Run SandBase Harness v0.3.2 on your own VPS: tagged install, agent YAML, MCP servers, sandbox modes, and pointing the Anthropic SDK at your box.
Gate AI agent actions behind approvals
An agent proposes an action. A policy service and a person decide it. A sealed executor holds the only credentials. The design that survives prompt injection.
Graft: a codebase map for coding agents
Graft parses your repo with tree-sitter into a codebase map your coding agent queries over MCP, so it stops rediscovering the same structure every session.
Claude Code plugins: what they are and cost
What a Claude Code plugin is, where it lives, how to install one, and what it really costs: nothing for the mechanism, tokens for everything it loads.
Agent skills vs MCP servers vs rules files
Three ways to give a coding agent context, and one rule for picking. See what a skill, an MCP server and a rules file each cost in tokens and upkeep.
Stateless MCP servers: what actually changed
MCP revision 2026-07-28 removed sessions and the initialize handshake. What that means for your reverse proxy, health checks, timeouts and auth.
MCP email server: give your agent an inbox
Run an MCP email server on your VPS so Claude can triage your inbox. App password scoping, sender allowlists, draft-only replies, and the injection risk.
How to learn AI agents, from scratch
A staged path for learning AI agents: concepts, a loop you write yourself, tools, memory, and safety, with one thing to build at every stage.
Memmy: a local memory hub for agents on a VPS
Memmy gives your AI agents one shared memory store. Build it from source on Ubuntu, run the memory service on port 18960, and keep every note local.
Run MCP servers on a VPS for AI coding agents
Run Model Context Protocol servers on your own VPS so AI agents get real tools: stdio and remote HTTP transports, systemd, TLS, auth, and every failure mode.
Build your own AI agent on a VPS
An AI agent is a loop around a language model that can use tools. Learn the concepts behind building one on your own VPS: the loop, tools, MCP, memory.
Build an AI agent with Claude on a VPS
Use Claude as the brain and your VPS as the body. How the Messages API, tool use, and MCP fit together to build an AI agent you run yourself.