MCP Architecture: Hosts, Clients, Servers, Tools, and Resources
A component-by-component guide to MCP architecture, including host and client responsibilities, server primitives, transports, and trust boundaries.
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Testing and Debugging MCP Servers
A practical workflow for inspecting, testing, and debugging MCP servers from protocol exchange to downstream side effects.
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MCP Security Threat Model for Production Systems
A practical threat model for MCP hosts, clients, servers, tools, credentials, model context, and downstream systems.
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MCP Tool Permissions and Least Privilege
A practical permission model for controlling which MCP tools users and agents can discover, call, and approve.
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MCP Prompt Injection, Tool Poisoning, and Data Exfiltration
A defensive guide to prompt injection, tool poisoning, confused-deputy risks, and data exfiltration in MCP systems.
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Deploy and Observe a Remote MCP Server
A production deployment guide for remote MCP servers covering network boundaries, identity, scaling, observability, and rollback.
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MCP Error Handling: Timeouts, Retries, and Cancellation
A reliability guide to MCP errors, deadlines, retries, cancellation, progress, idempotency, ambiguous writes, and observable recovery.
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MCP Tool Design: Schemas, Descriptions, and Structured Outputs
Practical MCP tool-design guidance covering names, descriptions, JSON Schema, structured results, errors, permissions, and testing.
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MCP Authentication and Authorization Explained
A production-focused guide to authenticating MCP clients and authorizing users, tools, resources, tenants, and downstream actions.
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Build an MCP Client: Discovery, Routing, and Results
An implementation guide to MCP client connection management, tool discovery, model mapping, routing, result handling, and observability.
