Stuart Blackler
Principal Engineer · Builder of VerifyMCP
Stuart has spent 15+ years building systems where a security mistake is expensive: payment infrastructure at Checkout.com, core banking at ClearBank, and most recently as CTO at Illuvium. He builds VerifyMCP, whose scoring engine connects to every server in the official MCP registry and publishes what it can verify.
What he works on
- Model Context Protocol
- Software Supply Chain Security
- Application Security
- .NET
- AWS
- Cloud Architecture
- Software Engineering
Elsewhere
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Writing
- GPAI and the EU AI Act: what MCP server builders owe 1 Sept 2026
- Agentic payments: what an agent can verify before paying 31 Aug 2026
- AI BOM (AIBOM) explained, and the tool gap 30 Aug 2026
- Software supply chain security in MCP packages 29 Aug 2026
- AI agent identity: the standards that actually ship 28 Aug 2026
- Best AI agents 2026: compared by what you can verify 27 Aug 2026
- MCP tools vs resources: which one to expose 26 Aug 2026
- MCP client vs server: which are you building? 25 Aug 2026
- MCP vs ACP: different layers, and three ACPs 24 Aug 2026
- MCP vs LangChain: framework, protocol, or both? 23 Aug 2026
- MCP vs agents: the difference, and do you need both? 22 Aug 2026
- MCP vs function calling: they are not rivals 21 Aug 2026
- MCP security scanning: what it can prove 20 Aug 2026
- MCP prompt injection and tool poisoning 19 Aug 2026
- MCP server hosting: self-hosted or managed 18 Aug 2026
- MCP observability after logging was deprecated 17 Aug 2026
- MCP sampling and roots are both deprecated now 16 Aug 2026
- MCP elicitation: form mode, URL mode and the risks 15 Aug 2026
- Best MCP servers: how to actually pick one 13 Aug 2026
- MCP gateway: what it solves, and what it hides 12 Aug 2026
- MCP Inspector: debug and verify an MCP server 11 Aug 2026
- How to test MCP servers: from local dev to production 6 Aug 2026
- MCP authorization: how OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 spec 5 Aug 2026
- MCP vs CLI: which should your coding agent use, and when? 4 Aug 2026
- MCP vs A2A: what each protocol lets you inspect 3 Aug 2026
- MCP vs RAG: how retrieval fits behind the protocol 2 Aug 2026
- MCP vs API: what changes when the caller is a model 1 Aug 2026
- MCP vs Skills: where the trust boundary sits 31 Jul 2026
- MCP security best practices: the 2026 checklist 29 Jul 2026
- VerifyMCP now supports MCP 2026-07-28 28 Jul 2026
- Why MCP server security is hard, and how we score it 30 Jun 2026
Get in touch
For scoring corrections, advertising or anything else about VerifyMCP, the about page has the address to write to.