Dev finds his coding agent's sprawling MCP servers have no clear permission audit
esanDev · reddit · 2026-10-20
A developer realized his coding agent now reaches Google Drive, Sheets, Notion, a browser and more via MCP servers — most added hastily for one task and never reviewed. The concern: there's no clear inventory of what the agent can read or change across them, since permissions live partly in config files and partly in one-off prompt approvals. He asks how others audit their MCP setup, whether they scope tokens per project, or just trust approval prompts.
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