Model Context Protocol (MCP) at First Glance: Studying the Security and Maintainability of MCP ServersMohammed Mehedi Hasan, Hao Li, Emad Fallahzadeh, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassanhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13538
Model Context Protocol (MCP) at First Glance: Studying the Security and Maintainability of MCP ServersAlthough Foundation Models (FMs), such as GPT-4, are increasingly used in domains like finance and software engineering, reliance on textual interfaces limits these models' real-world interaction. To address this, FM providers introduced tool calling-triggering a proliferation of frameworks with distinct tool interfaces. In late 2024, Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to standardize this tool ecosystem, which has become the de facto standard with over eight million weekly SD…