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Should we open source it?

Should we open source it?“Yes. Ship an MCP server so other people's agents adopt it.”Taylor Kim, The AI Native

💡 WHY TAYLOR IS RIGHT

Discovery has changed. Developers increasingly meet new tools through coding agents that search, read and integrate public code on their behalf. A public repository with clear docs, examples and a machine-readable interface becomes something agents can recommend and wire up in minutes. The same agents can triage incoming issues, label duplicates and draft first replies. Open-sourcing a tool today is partly publishing it for the software that will choose it for humans.

✅ RIGHT WHEN

Adoption by developers matters and the tool has a clean interface agents can call.

🚩 TOO FAR WHEN

Agents open the issues, agents answer them, and no human has read the repo in a month.

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