MCPMCP Tools, Servers, and Failure Modes: The Production Interview Answer
MCP interview guide: tools, servers, and failure modes—tools vs resources vs prompts, tool poisoning vs config RCE, OAuth, production checklist.
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MCPMCP interview guide: tools, servers, and failure modes—tools vs resources vs prompts, tool poisoning vs config RCE, OAuth, production checklist.
Threat model MCP coding agents — prompt injection, malicious servers, .mcp.json attacks, and runtime governance.
Model Context Protocol interview guide: hosts, clients, servers, agent gateways, and enterprise MCP deployments.
MCP security interviews focus on permission models, tool poisoning, prompt injection via resources, and why agent tool access is as sensitive as database credentials.
MCP interviews cover client-server boundaries, gateway patterns, transport choices, and how to scale tool ecosystems without creating undebuggable agent spaghetti.