Blog
The blog for developers shipping on Manufact Cloud and building with the mcp-use SDK.


The road to 10,000 stars
The history of mcp-use, told as a pull request, from the first commit to 10,000 GitHub stars. Commits are what we shipped; comments are what happened.

How iAhorro shipped a mortgage simulation app on ChatGPT in 4 days
iAhorro went from an early prototype to a production-ready MCP App on ChatGPT in days, using mcp-use and Manufact Cloud.


How Meilleurtaux became the first French broker to launch a mortgage app on ChatGPT
Meilleurtaux is the first credit and mortgage broker in France to launch a dedicated app on ChatGPT. They built a borrowing-capacity simulator on top of their real-time data with mcp-use and Manufact Cloud, in under two months.


How item exposed its product agent to ChatGPT and Claude with mcp-use
item already had a great internal agent inside their Next.js app. Their customers wanted to use it from their own agents. Here is how item shipped a production MCP server from the same repo, reusing the tools they already had and exposing the agent itself as a tool.


Migrating from Stainless: OpenAPI to MCP with mcp-use and Manufact
Stainless is shutting down its MCP product. Here's how to port your OpenAPI-to-MCP pipeline to mcp-use and Manufact Cloud — including when to ship a 1:1 server vs. a curated MCP App.


Building the mcp-use screenshot CLI
How we built the mcp-use screenshot CLI to close your agent's automatic feedback loop when developing MCP Apps


We Made MCP Testing Less Painful
Testing MCP servers is painful: slow install loops, behavior that differs across clients, and no good way to know if your agents are calling tools correctly. Here's how we fixed it.
