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Everything Wrong with MCP

The Model Context Protocol has security, UX, and LLM limitation issues that need formal standardization, particularly around access control and action criticality levels.

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Original Article

Author: Shrivu Shankar Published: 4/13/2025

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tl;dr

While MCP has rapidly become the de-facto standard for integrating third-party data and tools with LLMs, it has significant issues in protocol security, LLM security, UI/UX, and fundamental LLM limitations that need addressing before widespread adoption.

My Thoughts

There are some issues with MCPs that we need to make a formal standard on that protocol before adopting, eg: Protocol Security, LLM Security, UX/UI, limitations of LLMs. I think the main issue here is access control and how to determine for which agent what is the level of access / criticality of an action. Probably having a standard will be highly relevant here.

This is my personal commentary on the original article. Please read the original article for the full context.