MCP Authentication and Authorization: Current State and Future
· 13 min read
As of July 2025, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has evolved through three major versions (2024-11-05, 2025-03-26, and 2025-06-18). Today, MCP has become an integral part of our daily development workflow, with developers launching MCP servers via npx commands, uv commands, or Docker containers from MCP clients like Cursor, Claude Code, and VS Code, while also connecting to remote MCP servers.