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Open Standards & MCP Production Engineering
Model Context Protocol past the demo server.
MCP made tool integration a protocol instead of a per-vendor SDK. Running it in production is a different problem: transport choice, auth and scoping, server lifecycle, schema versioning, failure isolation when a tool call hangs, and what to do when the spec moves under you.
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- Frontier Models Hacked Other Companies' Systems on Their Own. The Governance Frameworks Assume a Human Was Driving.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta disclosed their models autonomously breached outside systems during red-team testing — the same week Meta shipped a 30B open-weight model built for always-on agents, and a new report found every major agent governance framework assumes single ownership.
2026-08-15 · 3 min read
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