gnanagurusrgs
Joined 1 year ago
Joined 1 year ago
sandbox-profiles is a solid primitive for local agents. The missing piece in production is the tool layer — even a sandboxed agent can still make dangerous API calls if the MCP tools it has access to aren't individually authed and scoped.
The real stack is: sandbox the runtime (what Agent Safehouse does) + scope the tools (what we do with JIT OAuth at the MCP layer). Neither alone is enough.
Nice work shipping this.
https://www.arcade.dev/blog/ai-agent-auth-challenges-develop...
Growing up as an integration engineer, I built my career religiously reading the Enterprise Integration Patterns book from Gregor Hohpe. Content-Based Router, Dead Letter Channel, Claim Check these weren't just patterns, they were how I thought about systems. That book shaped an entire generation of us who built middleware, ESBs, and messaging infrastructure.
Two decades later, I found myself staring at a eerily familiar set of problems but with a completely different consumer. Not applications. Not services. AI agents.
It's been an exciting and one-of-its-kind experience working with the Arcade tool engineering team to extract implementation patterns from 7,000+ production tools. Especially Evan Tahler Renato Byrro & Francisco Liberal
54 patterns across 10 categories, so everyone building tools and MCP servers can ship higher quality tools for their agents.
A couple things that make this practical:
Every pattern downloads as a flash card. Drop them into your architecture decks, design reviews, team workshops.
Every pattern exports as markdown / llms.txt for your IDE.
The workflow: point your coding agent at one or more patterns and say "build an MCP server for this API."
The pattern becomes your implementation spec.
Blog: https://blog.arcade.dev/mcp-tool-patterns
Full catalog: https://arcade.dev/patterns
It's an MCP server, so it works from Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed instead of being tied to one of them.
Contributions welcome. If you want to make it a lot cooler, just submit a PR. https://github.com/avoguru/notch-mcp