The studio, machine-readable.

This week we spent a couple of afternoons doing something small and unglamorous: we made the studio's website machine-readable.

Not more readable. The site was already readable in a browser. We made it readable by the other kind of reader — the kind that increasingly matters. RSS readers. JSON Feed aggregators. Language models. Agent runtimes. The audience that shows up without a browser.

Four surfaces, one substrate: /feed.xml (RSS 2.0), /feed.json (JSON Feed 1.1), /llms.txt (a Markdown map for LLM crawlers per llmstxt.org), and corduroy-labs.ai/mcp (a small MCP server with two tools, list_updates and get_update).

The MCP server is a demonstration. It is not a database. It reads /feed.json every five minutes and re-exposes it through MCP's streamable-HTTP transport. The point is what that says: any site that publishes JSON Feed already has an MCP-shaped surface. The MCP server is the projection layer that makes it visible.

Shipping the JSON Feed was the actual work. The MCP server is the punchline.

The whole thing is small enough that a founder building their own site can read it in an afternoon and adapt it. That's the flywheel we care about: the artifact is the marketing.