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> I think the opposite, MCP is destined to fail for the exact same reason the semantic web failed, nobody makes money when things aren't locked down. Is there
by drusepth 1y ago
> I think the opposite, MCP is destined to fail for the exact same reason the semantic web failed, nobody makes money when things aren't locked down.
Is there a way to handle "locking down" things with MCP? It seems like a potential opportunity for freemium services if they have a mechanism for authentication and telling the MCP caller "this user has access to these tools, but not _these_ yet".
- seanhunter 1y agoYes. MCP allows (and uses) exactly the same authentication mechanisms that any other rest or similar api allows. So if you have a service you want to expose (or not) via MCP you can do that in exactly the same way as you currently could do that for a rest API. The difference for the user is instead of them having to make (or use) a special-purpose client to call your rest api, the llm (or llm powered application) can just call the api for them, meaning your rest service can be integrated into other llm-powered workflows.
- what 1y agoDoes it though? How do you provide a login or bearer token or whatever for the LLM to use?
- seanhunter 1y agoThe llm/or llm powered application is just running the mcp server from the file system so you can use your normal methods ie inject it into the environment, pass it somewhere as a parameter or whatever