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Understanding Security in MCP

Security within the Model Context Protocol (MCP) presents a dual challenge. It requires addressing both traditional web vulnerabilities and a new class of threats specific to AI agents. As MCP standardizes how agents interact with external tools and data, it inevitably creates new attack surfaces that demand a comprehensive, defense-in-depth security strategy. Properly securing an …

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The Practical Guide to MCP Server Adoption

This framework helps you figure out whether MCP servers are right for your specific use case by systematically checking eight critical constraint categories. Each constraint gets scored, and the combined assessment guides your decision, a true compatibility test for you and MCP. The eight constraint categories What’s included in this framework Constraint assessment matrix For …

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The Agentic Intention Framework

Introduction: The paradox of building with AI in the loop As modern software engineers, we’re trained in the agile way: ship fast, iterate based on feedback, let design emerge. We start minimal and evolve based on what we learn from users. But architecting robust, performant, and useful MCP servers demands the opposite: with LLMs in …

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The Agentic Intention Framework In Practice

Overview: Who, what and why WHO will use the framework: WHAT are the components of the framework: A structured framework that transforms vague AI agent ideas into precise, measurable workflow definitions by eliciting explicit answers to critical questions before development begins: Framework constraints WHY use the framework: Achieve higher adoption rates for agentic tools and …

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Reduce Token Waste with an Intelligent MCP Proxy

As you install MCP servers, the risk is that you start crowding your context window with all the tool metadata tied to those servers. While a few tools may be needed for a task, most of the metadata simply wastes tokens and risks degrading model performance. Craig McLuckie of Stacklok launched a simple solution to …

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Building a Multi-tenant MCP Gateway on AgentCore Gateway

Nick Aldridge of AWS is one of the core maintainers of the Model Context Protocol. He joined MCP Academy to talk about the architecture of a multi-tenant MCP gateway, and then showed the audience exactly how to bring it to life with AgentCore Gateway.

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Safe and Deterministic Browser Automation with WebMCP

There has been a lot of recent buzz about browser agents like ChatGPT ‘Atlas’ and Perplexity ‘Comet’ but there are very real security concerns with how they work today. Alex Nahas who created MCP-B highlight some of those concerns and then showed how WebMCP could be a mitigating force.

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Signal vs. Noise in the MCP Ecosystem

In the first half of 2025, Baxter Black from Madrona co-authored a post that broke down patterns and popularity in the MCP ecosystem. Just in time for MCP Academy, Baxter revisited the research to highlight which MCP servers are being used most widely and hinted at the likely use cases driving enterprise interest in MCP.

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Use an MCP Server to Ship your AI Code with Control and Visibility

With increasing use of AI coding assistants there’s growing pressure on developers to maintain control and visibility of their code. Brock Lumbard from Statsig offered some guidance and then jumped into a demo that resonated with the developers in the audience.

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Helpful tools to build MCP Servers

Early at MCP Academy, Caitie McCaffrey of Microsoft took the stage to demo simple, effective ways to build your next MCP server. Whether you’re just starting your MCP journey, or you’ve already built a number of MCP servers, Caitie’s talk has you covered.

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