Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) went into production in late 2024. It spread rapidly after that. Since then, thousands of MCP servers have been created. Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI embraced it. The Linux Foundation took over protocol maintenance. Today, MCP is considered critical infrastructure. It sits between an AI agent and the tools and data it interacts with. Most teams implemented it the same way they implement any other integration standard. People installed it and trusted the defaults. The understanding that emerged in 2026 is that the problem wasn’t in the infrastructure....

Source: The New Stack