Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist

Posts tagged “mcp

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The Work Starts When the Thought Does
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The Work Starts When the Thought Does

An autonomous SDLC where a note fires a Claude session, and the pull request is waiting when I get home.

Self-healing software survives its bugs without changing a line. What I run against my projects changes the source. Logging the defect is what fires the work, and most days the completion email is the entirety of my involvement.

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I Spent Years Automating My Obsidian Daily Note. Now It Files Itself.
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I Spent Years Automating My Obsidian Daily Note. Now It Files Itself.

I fed it by hand for years. Now an agent files my day's captures overnight, and I wake up to what's next.

For years I fed my Obsidian daily note by hand. Now an agent files my captures overnight, tells my thoughts from my tasks, and I wake up to a clear picture of what's next.

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BlackOps Kept Giving Me the Same SEO Advice Every Week. So I Gave It a Memory.
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BlackOps Kept Giving Me the Same SEO Advice Every Week. So I Gave It a Memory.

Per-site snapshots and a recommendation ledger turned stateless analytics into advice that builds on itself.

BlackOps kept handing me the same SEO advice every week, so I built per-site memory into its GA4 and Search Console tools. Here is how it works.

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I Don't Open Analytics Anymore. I Just Ask.
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I Don't Open Analytics Anymore. I Just Ask.

My site is posts, pages, and signups. So is yours. Here's what happens when you can talk to it.

Every BlackOps-hosted site is the same three things: posts, pages, and newsletter signups. So you can just ask your site how it is doing. The interesting part is that everyone asks it something different.

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Sorties: Fire Real Actions Straight From Your AI Chat
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Sorties: Fire Real Actions Straight From Your AI Chat

Set up an action once. Fire it by name from anywhere, even your phone.

A Sortie turns a sentence in your AI chat into a real action. Fix a bug, message your team, fire an automation. Set it up once, fire it by name from anywhere, and your keys never touch the conversation.

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Claude Code Is Not Your Project Manager. The Artifacts Are.
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Claude Code Is Not Your Project Manager. The Artifacts Are.

A markdown file got me started. Infrastructure is what it became.

A year ago I gave Claude a ROADMAP.md and called it my project manager. The post still ranks. The post is also out of date. Here is what Claude actually manages now.

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The agent is the buyer now. Your checkout isn't ready.
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The agent is the buyer now. Your checkout isn't ready.

Stripe shipped the rails for autonomous agent checkout. The retail VPs still hiding product data behind login walls are losing transactions they can't see.

Checkout is next. The agent is the buyer now.

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Signup is dead. The agent is the signup form now.
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Signup is dead. The agent is the signup form now.

From npx to a live post in ten minutes. No forms, no empty dashboard.

From npx to a live post in ten minutes. No forms, no empty dashboard.

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Google Analytics in Claude: Query GA4 Without Leaving the Chat
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Google Analytics in Claude: Query GA4 Without Leaving the Chat

Five GA4 tools for the BlackOps MCP: sessions, top pages, traffic sources, trends, and multi-site comparison

I was tab-switching between GA4 and the chat where I actually do the writing. So I taught the chat to read the numbers. The loop closed.

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Stop Giving Claude a Static Doc. Give It a Brain.
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Stop Giving Claude a Static Doc. Give It a Brain.

Brain turns any Obsidian folder into a living knowledge base any agent can read, any agent can update, and you can have as many as you need.

Brain is a new BlackOps feature that compiles an entire Obsidian folder into a single context note your Claude Projects can read through MCP. No RAG. No scripts. Just everything Claude needs, in one place.

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I Watched a YouTube Video. Claude Wrote This Post.
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I Watched a YouTube Video. Claude Wrote This Post.

I didn't open a second tab. I didn't copy-paste anything. I had a thought, told Claude, and this post landed in my BlackOps queue. Here's exactly what happened.

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I Published an MCP for BlackOps Center. Here’s What It Actually Enables.
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I Published an MCP for BlackOps Center. Here’s What It Actually Enables.

The BlackOps MCP is live. Connect Claude or any MCP-compatible AI client directly to your BlackOps Center account and let it draft posts, write tweet threads, schedule content, and run full campaigns, all inside your actual content system, with your actual voice.