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    A new essay titled "You Said No MCP" is drawing heavy attention on Hacker News, ranking near the top of the site with close to 600 upvotes. The piece, published by Earendil, weighs in on the debate around the Model Context Protocol, the emerging standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data. Commenters are actively debating its arguments about how and whether developers should adopt MCP.

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    The Model Context Protocol organisation maintains a servers repository providing reference implementations of MCP servers in TypeScript, which let AI applications connect to external data sources and tools. Interest in the project continues as developers adopt the open protocol, originally introduced by Anthropic, to link large language models with files, databases and services.

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    pi.dev creator drops long-standing refusal to support MCP●The pi.dev homepage used to display a proud declaration: Pi does not support MCP. Not an omission, not a TODO. A statemeMmastodonTechnologyAI31 h ago

    Mario Zechner, creator of the pi.dev coding assistant, spent over a year publicly refusing to support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, calling the stance a matter of philosophy rather than an unfinished feature. The pi.dev homepage once declared outright that Pi does not support MCP. That position has now changed, with MCP support added despite the earlier dismissals.

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    Shared memory in MCP agents flagged as security weak point●The MCP ecosystem solved the wrong problem first. Tool wiring happened quickly; the memory layer became the soft underbeMmastodonTechnologySoftware35 h ago

    Developers are debating a flaw in the Model Context Protocol ecosystem: while connecting AI agents to tools was solved quickly, the shared memory layer has lagged behind and become a security risk. The concern is that a single compromised agent could write a poisoned memory entry, which every other agent reading that shared context would then inherit, spreading the corruption across systems.

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