Overview
- MCP maintainers from Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and OpenAI used a Dev Summit panel to confirm the protocol’s path to enterprise-grade security, reliability, and governance under the Agentic AI Foundation, which they said now counts about 170 members.
- Nick Cooper of OpenAI said MCP will focus on connecting AI agents to data and applications, while identity, observability, and governance will progress as separate open projects within the foundation.
- David Soria Para of Anthropic said authorization has changed often in the past year and noted active work with Okta on authentication, while stressing that full security will also rely on gateways, registries, sandboxing, and request interceptors.
- Catie McCaffrey of Microsoft addressed claims that command-line tools could replace MCP by saying CLIs fit local development, but the protocol’s value lies in linking many systems through one standard way to describe and call tools.
- The DEV guide explains MCP in plain terms as a JSON-RPC standard for listing tools, discovering them, and sending structured calls, and it highlights gateways such as TrueFoundry that add sign-in, role-based access, and audit logs for production use.