According to Sean Lynch in a Hacker News comment highlighted by Simon Willison, the real value of the Model Context Protocol over traditional API skills is security through isolation. MCP keeps authentication flows completely separate from an agent's context window, meaning large language models never see the actual credentials. Lynch suggests that even a simplified version—just an authentication gateway—would still be a significant improvement for AI agent architecture.

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