New MCP and skill for coding agents to use Baseten

This post introduces a backend MCP server and skill that enables coding agents to interact with the Baseten platform. The MCP server exposes the Baseten REST API to agents, offering discoverability and explicit annotations for read-only vs. mutating operations. Benchmarks show an average of 7.5% improvement in token usage, cost, and task completion time, with up to 57% improvement for operation-heavy tasks. The skill facilitates tasks such as deploying models, debugging deployments, tuning autoscaling, and managing day-to-day operations.