The MCP Tutorial Nobody Writes (Because It Would Scare You)

8M installs. Zero friction. And a trust model that hands your AI agent a loaded weapon, one tool description at a time. You spent twenty minutes setting up your de environment last Tuesday. Six MCP servers. GitHub, Slack, Notion, your local filesystem, a Postgres DB, and one you found on a community list that looked useful. Your Claude agent can now read your files, push commits, send Slack messages, and query your production database, all from a single chat window. You felt like a wizard. Here’s what you didn’t know: your agent trusts every single one of those servers completely.