MCP Report

MCP OAuth and Authentication Flows

MCP servers moved from issuing tokens themselves to accepting them from external identity providers.

Jonah Kaur

Staff Writer · July 28, 2026 · 12 min read

Connecting untrusted MCP servers puts agents inside your reasoning loop with minimal oversight.

Ruth AshworthJuly 28, 2026

The spec now enforces OAuth security, structured tool outputs, and user-gating within sessions.

Kai ReyesJuly 28, 2026

Autonomous agents amplify API vulnerabilities because they operate unsupervised across sessions.

Vera MbekiJuly 28, 2026

The MCP ecosystem exploded from 100 servers to over 21,000 in eighteen months.

Vera SabatiniJuly 28, 2026

OWASP's LLM Top 10 risks take on new forms in MCP, from tool poisoning to credential leaks.

Yuki NairJuly 28, 2026

LLM architecture conflates instructions and data, making both attacks systematically hard to stop.

Leila LarsenJuly 28, 2026

Production agents require memory, tools, and coordination layers beyond the model itself.

Amara PetrovaJuly 28, 2026