Tools and workflow coverage
Articles about APIs, retrieval systems, automation, testing, and the evidence needed to reproduce a result. This is an editorial archive; focused browser utilities live in the separate Tools library.
From this desk
The featured page offers a strong introduction. The remaining cards help readers move through this editorial section without turning the archive into a service menu.
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A useful workflow story records the account state, request, expected output, retained evidence, and stop condition beside the result.
Latest stories
Read the archive in publication order. Each story focuses on one implementation question and keeps its inputs, failures, evidence, and limits visible.
SEOPress 10.3 adds a built-in MCP server with 18 read-only and nine write-capable tools. A live upgrade check confirms that installing the release does not expose a site until its owner enables the endpoint.
Tavily’s language boost and strict filter make different promises. Use this 12-row unmeasured fixture to test compliance, source overlap, availability and relevance.
Cloudflare AI Search is generally available with image embeddings, OCR, hybrid retrieval and usage pricing. This worksheet separates the cost and quality decisions.
Audit AI-assisted website content across purpose, evidence, original value, metadata, disclosure, accessibility, indexability and site-scale repetition.
WordPress 7.1.2 patches CVE-2026-87902, a critical local file inclusion issue that can lead to code execution under specific theme and server conditions.
Use isolated Worker branch previews to catch canonical, robots, redirect, schema and rendered-content failures before production.
Prompt caching can materially reduce repeated AI-search evaluation costs, but only when the shared prefix survives tool, schema and configuration changes.
Claude 5.5 changes thinking and tool-use behavior, while Sonnet 4.5 retires on November 30, 2026. Use this migration calendar to inventory, test, canary and remove the old model ID.
Perplexity’s Python Search SDK offers live web search, fan-out and snippets. This audit separates the open wrapper, compiled core and measurable retrieval output.
A useful standard
A workflow is useful when another person can inspect what went in, what happened, what failed, and why the result changed a decision.
Preserve the request, configuration, account state, environment, and relevant versions before interpreting the response.
Keep timeouts, empty results, parser errors, retries, and zero-result runs. Removing them hides how the real system behaves.
Use stable internal labels for credentials and redact tokens, personal data, and licensed content that should not enter a report.
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