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Agents2026-07-09 · source-backed
The EMA extension lets organizations gate MCP server access through their existing identity provider instead of per-server static credentials. That directly attacks the long-flagged authentication crisis where most MCP auth was static tokens sitting in config. If you run MCP servers internally, IdP-brokered access is now the default enterprise path, and there's no good excuse left for shipping static creds.
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