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What MCP solves well
It reduces custom glue, improves portability across clients, and speeds up experimentation with connected tools.
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What still exists outside the protocol
Shared context design, recurring execution, retries, approvals, monitoring, visibility, and deciding what should happen on each run are still separate product problems.
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The mistake small teams make
They assume that once the connection standard is in place, they are close to production. In reality, they are often only at the start of the operational layer.
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The useful framing
MCP is the interface. It is not the context layer, the workflow runtime, or the review surface.