GitHub MCP Maintainer Defends MCP Against Context Criticism

At MCPCon, GitHub MCP maintainer Sam Morrow pushed back on criticism that MCP has a context problem, noting his server handles 12 million calls weekly and that critics conflate lazy implementations with the protocol itself, while demoing a fork adding progressive disclosure and checkpoints.

2026-09-17 ~ 2026-09-17 · 3 related posts

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