Making your MCP server its own OAuth 2.1 server: 5 things that silently break clients
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Every MCP server tutorial ends the same way: paste an API key into a JSON config file. That works until you want other people's agents talking to your API, at which point you're asking strangers to store your credentials in plaintext on their laptop. The alternative is for your server to become an…
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- 2026-08-27 10:02 · DEV Community — AI
Making your MCP server its own OAuth 2.1 server: 5 things that silently break clients