Your agent connects to three MCP servers, calls tools/list, and suddenly it can search issues, query a database, send em...

Your agent connects to three MCP servers, calls tools/list, and suddenly it can search issues, query a database, send email, refund payments, and delete staging environments.The integration problem is solved. The tools are discoverable.The safety problem is not.MCP — the Model Context Protocol — did something genuinely useful: it gave AI clients and external tool servers a common language. Instead of every AI app inventing its own plugin system, a client can now ask a server what tools exist, inspect their schemas, and call them in a standardized way. That is a real step forward for interoperability.But discoverability is not authorization. A tool list is not a permission boundary. A JSON schema is not a sandbox. And a polite tool description is not proof that the tool is safe.MCP made tools easy to find. It still leaves the hard parts to you: trust, policy, isolation, consent, auditability, and defense against hostile content. TL;DRMCP standardizes tool discovery, schema description, ...

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