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Add Automatic Support to Your Repository
Ship skills, MCP servers, rules, and more directly from your git repository. One manifest, one-click install, every AI agent supported.
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Writing from the Automatic team
Updates, technical deep-dives, and guides on AI agents, MCP, Skills, and the future of AI-assisted development.
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The best entry points if you are trying to understand MCP, skills, instructions, and how Automatic fits into an AI-agent workflow.
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Skills vs Instructions: What's the Difference?
Automatic gives you two ways to shape how your AI agents behave: Skills and Instructions. They're complementary but serve different purposes. Here's when to use each.
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What Are MCP Servers and Why Do They Matter?
The Model Context Protocol is the connective tissue between AI agents and the tools they use. Here's a plain-language breakdown of what MCP servers are and how they work.
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Release notes, announcements, and additional writing from the Automatic team.
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Automatic 1.0: Your Agents, Finally in Sync
Automatic 1.0 is here. A single desktop hub to manage skills, MCP servers, instructions, memory, and credentials across every AI coding agent you use — with sync to 16 tools, drift detection, and a built-in marketplace.
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Automatic 0.8.0: AI-Generated Instructions and Recommendations
Version 0.8.0 brings AI-powered instruction generation, skill and MCP recommendations, project context via a dedicated MCP tool, and a major overhaul of how rules and context are managed across your projects.
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Introducing Automatic: One Config for Every Agent
We built Automatic because managing AI agents across tools had become a nightmare. Here's why we did it, and what we built.