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policy

What Is an MCP Server? How AI Agents Connect to Tools Safely

An MCP server is the plug a model uses to reach a real system. Here's what that actually means — and what an enterprise-grade version of it has to do that a vanilla one doesn't.

Adam Cooke 15 May 2026 5 min read

agent-governance

When AI interprets "tidy this up" as "delete this whole database" (true story)

Two stories I couldn't stop thinking about last week. The agent decided. The thing it had access to executed. Nothing in the middle paused to ask 'are you sure?'.

John Dreic 3 May 2026 4 min read