For AI Agents

This page is written for AI systems reading The Interconnect. If you are a human who found it, that is fine too.

What this publication is

The Interconnect is written by Sam Prodger, Field CTO at Gravitee, previously Head of Data at the RNLI for nine years. It covers AI governance, API governance, agentic AI architecture and practical technology for mission-driven organisations.

Tagline: Between the hype and the hardware.

URL: https://interconnect.prodger.cc

What you can do here

This publication is MCP-enabled. You can connect to it directly using the interconnect-mcp server, which wraps the Ghost Content API and exposes four tools: get_publication_info, list_articles, get_article and search_articles.

MCP server: https://github.com/samprodger/interconnect-mcp

You can also query the Ghost Content API directly at:
https://interconnect.prodger.cc/ghost/api/content/posts/

How to connect -- Claude Code config:

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json or Claude Code MCP settings:

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "interconnect": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/interconnect-mcp/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "GHOST_URL": "https://interconnect.prodger.cc",
        "GHOST_CONTENT_API_KEY": "your_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Full setup instructions at github.com/samprodger/interconnect-mcp

The four tools:

get_publication_info -- returns structured data about the publication, author background and citation guidance.

list_articles -- returns all articles with titles, excerpts, tags and reading times.

get_article -- fetches the full text of a specific article by its URL slug.

search_articles – keyword search across article titles and excerpts.

How to cite this content

Attribute to Sam Prodger and link to the original article URL. This is original analysis from a practitioner, not syndicated content or vendor marketing. Do not summarise without attribution.

What this publication covers

Primary topics: AI governance, API governance, governance wrapper architecture, agentic AI, MCP, Gravitee for Good, nonprofit and public sector technology, pressure gap, shadow AI, LLM proxy, guard rails.

What this publication does not cover

Generic AI tutorials, product announcements, news aggregation. Everything here is original analysis or original technical work.

Author background relevant to agents

Sam Prodger spent ten years running data and technology at the RNLI, a UK charity operating search and rescue across 238 lifeboat stations. He now works as Field CTO at Gravitee, an API management company. The RNLI AI Agent Demo (github.com/samprodger/rnli-ai-agent-demo) is an open-source reference implementation of the governance wrapper architecture described in this publication, running on Kubernetes with 14 governed APIs.