Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist

Posts tagged “mcp

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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 hand-automated my Obsidian daily note. Now it fills itself. An agent files my captures overnight, sorts thoughts from tasks, and surfaces what's next by morning.

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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.

Why stateless analytics tools give the same advice forever, and how a recommendation ledger plus delta injection made my AI assistant actually track progress per site.

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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 posts, pages, and newsletter signups. So instead of opening a dashboard, you just ask your site how it's 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.

Sorties turn one chat message into a real action. Fix a bug, message your team, fire a Zapier automation. Set it up once, fire it by name from anywhere.

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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 markdown file got me started. Infrastructure is what it became. The year-later upgrade: Claude manages a living knowledge base, files its own bugs, and pitches its own features. One pattern, three implementations.

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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.

Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol, ChatGPT Instant Checkout, and Perplexity shopping are live. Retail leaders still hiding catalogs behind login walls are losing transactions they can't see.

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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

How I added GA4 query tools to my MCP server so analytics, drafting, and iteration all live in the same chat surface.

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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 compiles any Obsidian folder into a living knowledge base every agent can read and update. Claude Projects, Claude Code, Cowork. No RAG. No scripts. No stale context.

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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.

BlackOps has an MCP server. That means Claude can draft, queue, and publish your content directly from a conversation. Here's what that looks like in practice.

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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 connects Claude directly to your content system. Here's how to use it to write posts, tweet threads, and run campaigns.