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Notes on branching your data

Guides on MongoDB branching, time travel, and giving AI agents databases they can’t destroy.

• Jul 8, 2026 · 7 min read

  MCP + MongoDB: Versioned Sandboxes for Agent Tool-Calls

  Connecting an AI agent to MongoDB over MCP usually means handing it a live database. Argon’s MCP server gives each agent a versioned, branchable MongoDB instead — 13 tools to open a sandbox, diff, merge, time-travel, and undo.

• Jul 8, 2026 · 8 min read

  MongoDB Time Travel vs Point-in-Time Recovery

  Time travel and point-in-time recovery (PITR) both go back in time in MongoDB, but they solve opposite problems: PITR restores a whole database for disaster recovery, while time travel queries or branches any past state without touching the present. How each works, and when to use which.

• Jul 8, 2026 · 8 min read

  MongoDB Database Branching, Explained

  What database branching means for MongoDB, why MongoDB has no native equivalent of Neon or PlanetScale, how it works under the hood, and how to branch a MongoDB database today with Argon.

• Jul 8, 2026 · 9 min read

  Database Branching Tools Compared: Neon, PlanetScale, Dolt, lakeFS, and Argon

  A practical map of the database branching landscape — what Neon, PlanetScale, Dolt, lakeFS, and Argon each branch, how they compare on merge, time travel, and licensing, and which one fits MongoDB.

• Jul 8, 2026 · 7 min read

  A Disposable MongoDB Sandbox for Every AI Agent

  Why AI agents need their own database, how a branch-per-agent workflow keeps production safe, and how to wire it up with Argon’s MCP server, TTL sandboxes, and reproducible dataset pins.