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December 1st, 2025
210
10 mins
MCP Enterprise Readiness: How the 2025-11-25 Spec Closes the Production Gap
MCP
Enterprise AI
Agentic AI
Security
OAuth
Authentication
Infrastructure
Agent Ops
Governance
Enterprise Integration
The Model Context Protocol's first anniversary release isn't just a milestone—it's a strategic inflection point. With asynchronous Tasks, enterprise-grade OAuth, and a formal extensions framework, the 2025-11-25 spec directly addresses the operational barriers that have kept organizations from deploying agent-tool ecosystems at scale. This post examines how these new primitives transform MCP from a development convenience into production-grade infrastructure.
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May 21st, 2025
1265
29 mins
Securing MCP with OIDC & OIDC-A: Identity-Aware API Gateways Beyond "Glorified API Calls"
Integrating OpenID Connect (OIDC) and the new OIDC-A agent extension with an identity-aware API gateway to securely authenticate users, LLM agents, and MCP tools—going far beyond basic API proxying.
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April 28th, 2025
2613
7 mins
OpenID Connect for Agents (OIDC-A) 1.0 Proposal
OpenID
OAuth
AI
Agents
Security
Identity
Authentication
Authorization
Standards
Proposal
Specification
Technical proposal for extending OpenID Connect Core 1.0 to provide a framework for representing, authenticating, and authorizing LLM-based agents within the OAuth 2.0 ecosystem.
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