Build your First MCP App
I gave a talk at the Commit Your Code 2026 conference on building your first MCP app.
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 09-03-2026
Nick Taylor
Canada
Nick is a GitHub Star, AAIF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, AWS Community Builder, Software Developer, and Developer Advocate. With over two decades in technology and a decade of open source contributions, plus six years of professional open source work at companies like OpenSauced, dev.to, Netlify and now Pomerium, he brings deep community knowledge to his work. You'll often find him live streaming tech content, either solo or with friends from the community.
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Community Contributions
docs: fix npx examples to use scoped @openai/codex-security package name
Both READMEs tell users to run the CLI via npx codex-security ..., but the published package is scoped: @openai/codex-security. The bin name inside the package is codex-security, so the bare form only works if the scoped package has already been installed locally (npx then finds node_modules/.bin/codex security). Run cold — the documented "quick start" path for a new user — npx codex-security resolves against the npm registry under the unscoped name instead, which is a different, unrelated package. This PR fixes this.
Open source project / 07-29-2026
Securing MCP Servers and MCP Apps with Pomerium Course
A hands-on course on securing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and MCP apps with Pomerium, covering OAuth 2.1, upstream OAuth to APIs like GitHub, and per-user, per-tool authorization from dev to production.
Other / 07-21-2026
Open Source Friday with Pomerium
I joined Andrea Griffiths for GitHub's Open Source Friday featuring Pomerium, an open source identity-aware proxy that secures access to internal apps and services. We’ll dig into how Pomerium approaches authentication, authorization, and zero trust access, and explore the project from both a technical and contributor perspective.
Video/Podcast / 06-12-2026
feat(gateway): add trusted-proxy auth mode (openclaw/openclaw)
Added trusted proxy auth mode to the OpenClaw project.
Open source project / 05-14-2026
Introducing Excaliclaw: A Skill for OpenClaw to Generate Excalidraw Diagrams
A writeup on an agent skill I created that helps you leverage the Excalidraw MCP in OpenClaw, where you do not have access to the UI of an MCP app.
Blogpost / 04-25-2026
Agents need a runbook for hill-climbing
Jon Lebensold, Founder at Jetty, joins Nick Taylor for a hands-on conversation about agent evaluations and how to systematically improve agent performance. Jon will dig into what a practical runbook for hill-climbing looks like.
Video/Podcast / 04-23-2026
Claws Out: Securing and Building with OpenClaw
My talk from AI Engineer Europe on the OpenClaw track. It discusses the Trusted Proxy Auth mode I implemented in the OpenClaw project and then I demo how I leverage OpenClaw to build.
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 04-09-2026
