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MCP Is The Plug. You Still Need The Outlet Cover.

MCP — Model Context Protocol — has gone from a curiosity to enterprise infrastructure in less than a year. Last Friday, the Linux Foundation made it official, formalizing MCP under its new Agentic AI Foundation alongside production integrations from SUSE, AWS, and Fujitsu.

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Brex (the corporate-card and spend-management fintech) made the point cleanly this week with the open-source release of CrabTrap — a small proxy that watches every HTTP call an agent makes before it goes out. A 306-practitioner study published this month puts the urgency in numbers: 82% of organizations have agents in production or pilot, and the number-one cited challenge is reliability, not capability.

The protocol your engineers are excited about is genuinely useful and genuinely standard. The work of making it safe to operate is a separate budget line and a separate skill set — and it is the price of admission for running this stuff in a real company.

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