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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has standardized how we connect models to data, but the security layer remains a work in progress. Currently, MCP implements authorization via standard OAuth scopes.
While this works for handling coarse-grained tool access, it presents challenges for finer grained permissions.
To solve this, we must move toward intent-based authorization—a model where agents are authorized to perform actions based on the specific context of a task, rather than a pre-approved list of capabilities.
This presentation will dissect the consequences of the current OAuth model on agent design and present ideas of how to address them. We will discuss how to implement dynamic authorization that allows agents to be helpful without being intrusive, ensuring that security scales alongside intelligence.
