Auth for your MCP server, without running an authorization server
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You built a remote MCP server. It’s useful, so now strangers’ agents want to call it, and you need to answer the question every remote server hits: who’s allowed in? The MCP spec’s answer is OAuth 2.1: put an authorization server in front, register clients, issue tokens. Which is correct, and heavy…
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- 2026-09-01 00:05 · DEV Community — AI
Auth for your MCP server, without running an authorization server