NSA publishes design-considerations guidance for hardening MCP

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The NSA released authoritative guidance on Model Context Protocol security (June 2026), walking through MCP's inverted client-server pattern, the risk of unverified task propagation between chained servers, and arbitrary-code-execution exposure. It is the first government-level design guidance for the protocol, signaling MCP is now treated as critical agent infrastructure. Teams shipping MCP integrations now have a baseline reference to audit against.