Tag: mcp
MCP Ponderings
AT Protocol MCP Server: Dependency Audit & Refactor
AT Protocol MCP Server: Dependency Audit & Refactor
atproto-mcp-server
AT Protocol Model Context Protocol server for social web interactions.
Improving the Azure SDK developer experience with MCP
Providing version-specfic context to an LLM using an MCP can greatly improve productivity and reduce cost.
Fortresses, Pipes, and Brains
Workday's CEO called AI agent startups "parasites." Linear shipped a native AI agent that understands software development workflows. These are two ends of a spectrum, with most of the industry stuck in the middle — exposing data through MCP without embedding any intelligence. The companies that win will be the ones that make AI native to their domain workflow.
The Ghost in the Training Set
LLMs have statistical momentum: even when they know a new standard like Streamable HTTP exists, they often revert to the legacy patterns they saw most in training. Here is how to use "strong anchors" and "zero-prompt pruning" to keep your agentic systems from being haunted by 2024.
MCP Apps And Interactive UIs In MCP Clients
MCP Apps adds an official extension for rendering interactive UIs inside MCP clients, building on MCP-UI and OpenAI's Apps work to move beyond plain text.
Hello, Anthropic
After three years at Microsoft working on security and MCP, I'm joining Anthropic as a Member of Technical Staff to help grow the MCP ecosystem.
MCP Anbindung für Magento 2 Onlineshop per MCP-Server in Entwicklung
Wir sind aktuell dabei weiter an einem MCP Server und dazugehörige Erweiterung in Magento 2 zu arbeiten. Der MCP Server ermöglicht es, dass LLMs per MCP gewisse Endpoints zur Verfügung stellen kann. Diese Endpoints erlauben den Zugriff auf Daten im Shop (später evtl. auch Manipulation der Daten). Der MCP-Server wiederum baut eine Verbindung zu Magento...
Wrapping Up 2025 - The Year Of MCP
Year-in-review piece on a 2025 spent largely on Model Context Protocol work, covering spec milestones, ecosystem shifts, and what's likely next.
One Year Of Model Context Protocol Through A Core Maintainer Lens
A core maintainer's reflection on a year of Model Context Protocol, coinciding with the 2025-11-25 specification release and a look at what's next.
Support For CIMD For MCP In Visual Studio Code
How Client ID Metadata Documents replace Dynamic Client Registration in the MCP authorization spec, and how Visual Studio Code will surface CIMD to users.
The MCP Maintainers Meet In New York
Recap of the MCP maintainers gathering in New York - how the contributor community coordinates async work on auth, security, registries, and docs.
Visual Studio Code And The MCP Installation Prompt
VS Code Insiders adds a consent prompt before installing a third-party MCP server, blocking silent one-click writes to the editor's MCP configuration.
Stop Guessing: MCP Elicitations Come To Visual Studio Code
VS Code now supports MCP elicitations from the 2025-06-18 spec, letting servers prompt users with structured native dialogs instead of guessing at parameters.
Please Don't Write Your Own MCP Authorization Code
Why most teams should let an API gateway handle the new MCP Protected Resource Metadata flow instead of hand-rolling OAuth in their own server code.
The Month of MCP
Notes from a month of MCP work spanning Microsoft Build, the MCP Developer Summit, AI Engineer World's Fair, and ongoing security and spec contributions.
Agents Are Your Mech Suit
Why AI agents act as a force multiplier for engineers, why the job-replacement framing misses the point, and how to think about agent-based workloads.
Confused Deputy Attacks In MCP, Solved With Azure APIM
Mitigating confused deputy attacks in remote MCP servers by enforcing per-client consent prompts and proxying Dynamic Client Registration through Azure APIM.
JSON Is The Wrong Content Type For LLM Inputs.
This isn't an exhaustive or fully baked idea yet, but I've been noticing a trend with MCP servers -- they love to just yeet a bunch of JSON at an LLM. I think this is well-intentioned but not super optimal.
Better Logic For Showing Auth Windows With Your Local MCP Server
Parent WAM authentication dialogs to MCP clients like VS Code and Claude Desktop by traversing the process hierarchy to find a usable window handle.
Secure Remote MCP Servers With Entra ID And Azure API Management
Building an Entra ID-protected remote MCP server with Azure API Management as the auth gateway and Azure Functions handling the protocol implementation.
Old Security Rakes In New MCP Yards
MCP brings back classic security problems around local execution and remote authentication, and the industry seems determined to ignore lessons already learned.
Improving The MCP Authorization Spec, One RFC At A Time
Walkthrough of the MCP authorization RFC that adds Protected Resource Metadata so servers can delegate auth to GitHub, Entra ID, and other existing IdPs.
OpenSpartan Forerunner: An MCP Server For Halo Infinite
OpenSpartan Forerunner is a Model Context Protocol server that exposes Halo Infinite stats and gear data to MCP clients like VS Code and Claude Desktop.