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Builder Radar — Week of July 26, 2026
July 26, 2026
TL;DR MCP is now the dominant AI connectivity protocol: @modelcontextprotocol/sdk hit 45.5M weekly npm downloads, outpacing both the OpenAI and Anthropic...

Builder Radar — Week of July 19, 2026
July 19, 2026
TL;DR MCP is the dominant infrastructure layer: @modelcontextprotocol/sdk leads all tracked npm packages at 39.6M weekly downloads, outpacing even openai...

Builder Radar — Week of July 12, 2026
July 12, 2026
TL;DR MCP has crossed from protocol to infrastructure: @modelcontextprotocol/sdk is the most-downloaded AI package on npm at 35.6M weekly downloads,...

Builder Radar — Week of July 5, 2026
July 5, 2026
TL;DR Claude Code is under active security scrutiny — steganographic prompt-marking allegations drew 2,435 HN points and 745 comments on June 30, the week's...

Builder Radar — Week of June 21, 2026
June 21, 2026
TL;DR MCP is now the dominant AI integration protocol: @modelcontextprotocol/sdk hit 39.3M weekly npm downloads — outpacing both openai (26.5M) and...

Builder Radar — Week of June 14, 2026
June 14, 2026
TL;DR Agent safety is the week's loudest conversation: an AI agent bankrupted its operator scanning a network and a separate LLM defaced Fedora...

Builder Radar — Week of June 7, 2026
June 7, 2026
TL;DR MCP is the dominant infrastructure protocol this week: @modelcontextprotocol/sdk hit 35.5M weekly npm downloads, outpacing both openai (24.8M) and...

Builder Radar — Week of June 4, 2026
June 4, 2026
TL;DR MCP is now the dominant AI plumbing layer, with @modelcontextprotocol/sdk hitting 35.5M weekly npm downloads — larger than openai (24.8M) and...

Builder Radar — Week of June 4, 2026
June 4, 2026
Builder Radar — Week of June 4, 2026 TL;DR MCP is the fastest-growing protocol layer in the AI stack: @modelcontextprotocol/sdk hit 35.5M weekly npm...

Builder Radar — Week of June 4, 2026
June 4, 2026
Builder Radar — Week of June 4, 2026 1. TL;DR MCP has won the protocol war for now: the @modelcontextprotocol/sdk npm package is pulling 35.5M weekly...

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