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MCP Builders — The Producer Playbook for Teams Who Already Have APIs
You shipped REST years ago. Now agents need tools, not endpoints. MCP Builders is a chapter-by-chapter manual for wrapping your API the right way — tool design, OAuth, enterprise auth, hosting, and getting listed.
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MCP Builders, Chapter 4: stdio vs HTTP, Hosting, and Secrets
Chapter 1 got you running on stdio in Cursor. Real teams need a hosted endpoint. This chapter walks through when to move from local process to HTTP, where secrets actually live, and how to pick hosting without turning your MCP server into a credential leak.
MCP Builders, Chapter 3: Enterprise-Managed Auth for Server Builders
Chapter 2 got individual OAuth right. Chapter 3 is the provider side of enterprise-managed authorization — how admins provision your MCP connector once through their identity provider, map IdP groups to tool bundles, and offboard users automatically. This is the auth model that gets you into RFPs.
MCP Builders, Chapter 1: API → MCP in One Afternoon
You have REST. Agents need tools. This chapter walks through picking five capabilities from your API, naming them so models invoke correctly, and shipping a minimal MCP server you can test in Cursor before lunch is over.
MCP Builders, Chapter 2: OAuth, Tokens, and the Over-Permission Trap
When a user authorizes your MCP server, they delegate authority to an agent — not just to your app. Here is how OAuth scopes, token lifetime, and tool design interact, and why most builders accidentally give LLMs too much access.
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