Guides
Evaluation and deployment guidance, with the figures computed from the catalog.
- How to evaluate an MCP server for enterprise use
A practical sequence for assessing an MCP server before you connect it: who maintains it, what it can reach, how authentication works, where it runs, and what nobody has documented.
- Enterprise MCP evaluation checklist
Twelve questions to answer before connecting an MCP server to anything that matters, with what a good answer looks like and where to find it.
- MCP authentication explained: OAuth 2.1, discovery metadata and scopes
What actually happens when an MCP client authenticates, which documents a compliant server publishes, and how to read a scope list to work out whether read-only access is possible.
- Remote vs self-hosted MCP servers: what actually changes for IT
The practical differences between a vendor-hosted MCP endpoint and a package you run yourself — data flow, credentials, failure modes and review burden.
- What to ask an MCP vendor, and what “unknown” really means
The questions public documentation cannot answer, phrased so a vendor can answer them precisely — and why an undocumented criterion is not a failing grade.