

Building MCP Together: Arcade's Contribution to Secure Agent Auth
Your AI agent needs to search Gmail for that weekly report. You've built an MCP server, the tool definition, everything's wired up perfectly. One problem: there's no secure path in the protocol to get the OAuth 2.0 bearer token your agent needs to call the Gmail API. This is the gap between MCP's design and production reality. While the protocol handles client-server authentication beautifully, it completely lacks a mechanism for servers to securely obtain third-party credentials. At Arcade.dev