Clients and compatibility · 11 min read
MCP clients compared
Compare the documented transports, authentication paths, capabilities, configuration, and approval controls in six widely used MCP clients.
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Guides
Learn MCP
Evergreen guides for evaluating, connecting, building, and operating Model Context Protocol integrations.
Getting started · 8 min read
How to connect to a remote MCP server
A client-oriented walkthrough for testing an authless or OAuth-protected Streamable HTTP endpoint and diagnosing the first connection.
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Authorization · 10 min read
OAuth for MCP explained
Follow the MCP authorization sequence from a 401 challenge through resource and issuer discovery, PKCE and client registration, token exchange, and retry.
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Strategy · 8 min read
Should you build an MCP server?
A decision framework for choosing MCP, a normal API, direct function calling, client-specific apps or skills, or an integration gateway.
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Production engineering · 13 min read
Designing a production MCP server
Design focused tools and schemas, control context cost, choose a deployment state model, and build observable, rate-limited failure handling.
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Security and trust · 9 min read
MCP server evaluation and trust checklist
Evaluate a server's publisher, code and hosting, permissions, authentication, write behavior, evidence, logging, and revocation before connecting it.
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