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Google Data Agent Kit Is GA: Point Your Coding Agent at the Live Warehouse (2026)

Google Data Agent Kit connecting a coding agent to BigQuery and Google Cloud data services

If you work with data on Google Cloud, you know the ritual. Your coding agent writes beautiful SQL — against a schema it has never seen. So you paste in CREATE TABLE statements, sample rows and yesterday’s failed-job log. The agent reads them, nods along, and promptly forgets half of it. Rinse, repeat, every session. … Read more

How to Build a Laravel MCP Server: Complete Guide (2026)

How to build a Laravel MCP server with the first-party laravel/mcp package

You have probably pasted your database schema, your API routes, or a chunk of logs into an AI chat window at some point and watched it go stale the moment you ran the next migration. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) fixes that problem at the root: it is an open standard that lets AI clients … Read more