Is MCP as a Service Really Worth It?
No_Cartographer3953 · reddit · 2026-07-13
When building local tool services with MCP, the author found that permission control, server-side configs, and client-side configs become overly heavy: different permission levels require different tokens, making management costly.
This raises a question: should model tools really be designed as a service, or are they better suited as local packages/libraries directly called by different languages, much like standard time libraries? The post seeks community input on whether a key prerequisite for MCP was missed, or if the service-oriented approach simply isn't suitable for certain scenarios.
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