Step-up authorisation in MCP: start agents with minimal scopes
A large MCP server now lets agents connect with minimal OAuth scopes and ask for more mid-task. How the specification's step-up flow works, and what to check.
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Set up the MCP gateway and choose your first connectors
Give every computer's AI tools one governed MCP server: add two or three connectors read-only, set permissions and approvals, and check it works.
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