MCP in 2026: Context is All You Need
summary
MCP reports tens of millions of downloads per month and thousands of published servers with many more private enterprise deployments; recent additions are streamable HTTP for bidirectional streams, a unified authorization scheme, and extensions and MCP apps that expose live web UIs (example: an Excalidraw-backed app in Cloud). Progressive disclosure via tool search and “code mode” reduces context bloat and token use, while remaining work focuses on transport scalability, agent-to-agent tasks, enterprise attestation, and cross‑app access with Okta.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00MCP and agent context
- 2:07Agent requirements and connectivity
- 3:32Skills disclosure and CLI tools
- 8:01CLI limits and MCP role
- 9:29MCP as enterprise protocol
- 11:15Criticisms: context bloat and composability
- 13:21Programmatic tool use and code mode
- 16:29MCP adoption and ecosystem 2026
- 17:53MCP improvements 2025 and apps
- 20:45MCP challenges: transport and communication
- 22:54MCP governance and extensions
- 24:18Cross-app access hurdles
- 25:42MCP future as protocol
- 26:45Closing remarks
- 27:27Q&A
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