MCP's Topology Is Changing Under Your Feet
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MCP's Topology Is Changing Under Your Feet Most developers think about MCP as a flat topology. One host application in the center, MCP servers radiating outward like spokes on a wheel. Claude Desktop talks to a filesystem server, a database server, a GitHub server. Clean and simple. That model was roughly accurate in 2024. It's already wrong. The Flat Model Breaks The hub-and-spoke model assumes the host application handles everything: authentication, authorization, audit logging, rate limiting, credential management.