Why authorization and security matter - OAuth Tutorial

- The whole purpose of MCP is to give language models some of the capabilities we have so that we get more agentic AI. We get AI systems that can act on our behalf. Now, there are two parts to that. One is, an MCP server can retrieve content for us and add context to the model, thereof, the model context protocol. And the other part is that the way MCP servers are built, they can have tool capabilities, meaning they can go out in the world and do things on our behalf. I've already demonstrated how those tool capabilities work. I did a demo where I had Claude control my hue lights. I've also shown you how the MCP protocol can be used to retrieve data, modify data in different ways. And that has significant implications. Because when we build interfaces to data and to systems, the assumption has always been that the entity doing the interaction that actually makes a real world change is a person. As someone is sitting there clicking a button, or typing into a form field, or doing…