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MCP Apps: Interactive Tools for AI Agents

February 2026

Tools can now include interactive UI components. Our first MCP App: a location picker that renders a Leaflet.js map directly in the chat—click to select coordinates, search by name, or use your current location.


Agentic Forge Demo is Live

January 2026

Try Agentic Forge at agentic-forge.compulife.com.pk—a working AI agent with tool access. Bring your own API key, chat with built-in tools, or connect your own MCP servers.


BYOK and Custom MCP Servers in Agentic Forge

January 2026

Use your own API keys (BYOK) and connect custom MCP servers directly from the UI. Plus, TOON optimization now works with all tools automatically.


Cutting Context by 60%: TOON Format + Tool RAG

January 2026

We measured the combined effect of TOON format and Tool RAG—including the overhead from the extra round-trip. Together, they reduce context size by 60%, from 12,142 to 4,799 characters.


Tool RAG: Dynamic Tool Discovery for AI Agents

January 2026

How we implemented Tool RAG in Agentic Forge—agents discover tools on-demand through semantic search instead of loading all tools upfront, reducing context usage and improving tool selection accuracy.


TOON Format: Cutting Tokens Without Cutting Information

January 2026

How we implemented TOON format support across Agentic Forge to reduce tool result tokens by 30-60%, with a custom header workaround for MCP SDK limitations.


Model Management: Beyond the Dropdown

January 2026

How we built a model management system with favorites, recent models, and multi-provider support to tame 300+ available LLMs.


Getting Started with Agentic Forge

January 2026

Complete tutorial on setting up the full Agentic Forge stack with Docker Compose—from clone to running chat interface with tools.


Building a Multi-Provider AI Orchestrator

January 2026

How we built a model-agnostic orchestrator that routes to OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google with automatic provider detection and intelligent fallbacks.


Armory: An MCP Gateway for AI Agents

January 2026

Deep-dive into our MCP protocol gateway that aggregates multiple tool servers into a unified interface with namespacing, metrics, and an admin UI.


Streaming Tool Calls in Real-Time

January 2026

How we built real-time SSE streaming with tool call events, thinking tokens, and a reactive Vue.js UI that shows every step of the agent's work.

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