MCP
10 items tagged MCP.
Articles
Half the MCP Registry Does Not Start
Every study of the MCP ecosystem samples in a way that quietly selects for servers that work. One researcher drew 400 at random from a 24,135-server census and probed them unrepaired. Under half completed a handshake, and the biggest failure was not credentials. It was servers that never started at all.
MCP Went Stateless and Left the Tool Descriptions Alone
The largest MCP revision since launch rewrote the transport and hardened authorization. It says nothing about sanitizing tool descriptions, nothing about a trust boundary around tool metadata, and nothing about provenance. That is a choice worth naming.
MCP Went Stateless: What Breaks in 2026-07-28
The largest MCP revision since launch removes the initialize handshake and the session header, deprecates Roots, Sampling and Logging, and replaces server-initiated calls with a retry. Here is the actual list, and what it costs to migrate.
The MCP Server on an Azure Function App
The foundation - standing up a Model Context Protocol server on a serverless Azure Function App.
Connectors
Wiring the MCP server to the clients and data sources it talks to.
Multi-Client Wireup - ChatGPT, Claude Code, Grok, Copilot
One server, every client - connecting the same MCP to the tools you already use.
External Tool Access
Letting the system reach out to the wider world, safely.
MCP, Explained
One plug for every tool; why everyone is suddenly shipping an MCP server.