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Technical articles about building efficient AI agents with Agentic Forge.

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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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