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Ask HN: Do you think a new alternative to MCP would be useful?

5•empire23•13h ago
Hi everyone,

I've been wrestling with MCP, and keep finding the same weaknesses: - the middleware server feels completely unncessary and overly complex - it has too many security flaws due to what feels like a rushed out standard - it's just so poorly undocumented and confusing

I've been thinking of doing a new protocol, but am too aware of that ol' comic (https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards_2x.png)

Yet was curious to ask you guys - is there value in trying to build a new scalable, secure version of MCP?

Or should I just stick to the protocol that's currently popular?

Comments

muzani•8h ago
JS was designed in a few days. And many years later, people made proposals to it and improved it. A few like TS built on top of it.

Standards that are well designed end up like Java - still flawed and clunky. And built on top as well.

MCP wasn't designed by anyone omniscient. So if you found flaws with it, go ahead and propose something.

bjourne•32m ago
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. That is, if you can produce a working (free) implementation demonstrating the superiority of your protocol then there is huge value. If you can't there is no value.

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