4 parts · June 21, 2026 – June 25, 2026 — read in order, start to finish.
The protocol everyone adopted in 2025 is simpler to build for than the hype suggests — but the part that decides whether your server works isn't the code.
The hard part of remote MCP auth was never the login. It's proving a token was minted for *your* server and no one else's — the audience claim that turns a friendly proxy back into a locked door.
The code is the easy part. The decision that quietly dictates your hosting bill, your scaling story, and your deploy strategy is one you make before you write a line: will your server hold a session, or not?
Protocol tests prove your server works. They say nothing about the failure that actually breaks users — a perfectly valid server whose tool descriptions make the model reach for the wrong tool.
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