I have been doing URL redirect work for client sites for some time now. It’s one of those jobs that’s never quite urgent enough to automate, but tedious enough to dread, especially after a migration when you have hundreds of them.
Recently tried it. Connected my AI agent with MCP to handle it. I told it to build a set of redirects and it did. No dashboard, no wrestling with CSVs, no clicking through settings. Teaching in plain language. In seconds.
And what I was surprised by was not the speed, but the amount of mental overhead such a task involves. You’re not just doing the task you’re context switching into a tool, remembering where things are, making sure nothing breaks. Giving it to an agent removes all of it.
What really made me trust it for real client work was the dry-run feature. See exactly what is changing, before it changes. No surprises here.
Curious if anyone else has been using MCP for infrastructure tasks, redirects, DNS, workspace management. I think we are at the start of something that is going to quietly gobble up a lot of tedious technical work.
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