Ten Checks Before You Deploy an MCP Server

A practical pre-deployment review for an MCP server: pin the protocol era and code revision, compare advertised and live capabilities, exercise valid and invalid calls, map real authority, and finish with an evidence-backed go/no-go decision.

How I’d Build a Local PubMed/PMC Search and QA Workstation

A practical design for a one-workstation biomedical literature explorer: ingest the right NCBI datasets, preserve IDs and licenses, measure lexical and semantic retrieval separately, and make every generated answer open back to its evidence.