authentication patterns

Now we get to spend the next 18 months slogging through auth. I'd expect PATs everywhere for a long time. Did we learn anything good during the mcp crusades?" — Identifies authentication as a major un

OAuth & Authentication - Token handling for MCP servers" — Article covers OAuth and token management as part of MCP server integration, demonstrating authentication pattern implementation

Article discusses OAuth for remote HTTP servers and env var approaches for local stdio—this is context engineering authentication strategy

[INFERRED] "bring your own coin" — Slang reference to BYOK/BYOA pattern—Anthropic shift toward users managing their own billing keys rather than platform-managed quotas