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OAuth authorization

Family of IETF standards for delegated access, in which a user grants a client scoped, revocable tokens to act on their behalf against an API.

Current clusters

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Six OAuth steps run before an MCP client makes its first tool call

The MCP spec mandates OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, dynamic client registration and metadata discovery for remote servers. The one-hour tokens and customer-facing audit logs procurement asks about come from a guide's own bar.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+25
Incentives55
Confidence48