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Summer's heating up, and if you're building anything with Astro, the ecosystem's giving you plenty of firepower this week.
We've got a build challenge kicking off, AI agents finally knocking on your Astro door, and two deep dives on shipping fast. Let's go.
Free workshop sponsored by Astro on July 28 about building with AI without locking yourself into platforms. Over to $20K in Netlify and OpenRouter credits to be won.
WebMCP is a web standard that lets websites declare structured tools for AI agents to discover and use. This integration surfaces your Astro site's content and capabilities via WebMCP—declare once in your config, and allow agents find them natively.
Flavio walks through deploying Astro on Cloudflare Workers static assets: your static files serve instantly and free from the edge, and your Worker only runs when you need logic. It's a cleaner hosting story for content-heavy sites than most alternatives.
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Nicolas wanted terminal recordings in his docs without the friction of player setup, theme switching, and imports in every article. He built an integration that treats .cast files as assets, handles theme switches without restarting, and renders them in one line.
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That’s everything in our mailbag for this week!
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Keep building, Astronauts.
Nathan 👋
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