Google to embrace MCP

Posted by thoughtpeddler 4/10/2025

268 points | 52 commentspage 2

behnamoh 4/14/2025|

Well, Google is one of the major investors in Anthropic, so I'm not surprised.

noisy_boy 4/15/2025||

They have a chance to come-up with a user-friendly framework on top of MCP and make a big difference in acceleration of adoption. Cherry on the cake would be if they can build a UI on top of it to build/monitor/visualize. Hosted by them with a generous free-tier i.e. more private data to munch on for ads (only half joking).

edandersen 4/14/2025||

Are they going to release a Gemini desktop app with MCP support so normal people can use it?

whalesalad 4/15/2025||

it's wild to me how rapidly this has exploded in popularity. there's even a twitter account/site dedicated to news updates - https://x.com/getMCPilled and mcpilled.com

phildougherty 4/14/2025||

interested to see if Agent-to-Agent protocol duplicates the MCP functionality eventually

skeeter2020 4/15/2025|

I guess they could both expand into the other's current domain, but right now they're solving pretty different problems.

skybrian 4/14/2025||

It’s terribly insecure as-is [1]. But so was HTTP. The spec isn’t final, so hopefully it will improve.

[1] https://blog.sshh.io/p/everything-wrong-with-mcp

dheera 4/14/2025|

> MCP initially didn’t define an auth spec and now that they have people don’t like it.

Just wrap it in an SSH tunnel or a HTTPS websocket

> MCP servers can run (malicious code) locally.

Just run it in a Docker container

senko 4/15/2025|||

>> MCP initially didn’t define an auth spec and now that they have people don’t like it.

> Just wrap it in an SSH tunnel or a HTTPS websocket

I assume this is sarcasm, but if not (and for people that take it at face value), it fundamentally misunderstands what auth is used for.

Sayrus 4/14/2025|||

> Just run it in a Docker container

You should probably read the original article in the footnotes of OP's article: https://equixly.com/blog/2025/03/29/mcp-server-new-security-...

While a container will surely protect you from those, it will also prevent you using the features implemented by those MCP Servers.

Havoc 4/15/2025||

Containers are usually considered pretty weak security at best. Especially since you don’t always control what the user does with it (docker va rootless podman etc)

stevenalowe 4/15/2025||

Master Control Program?

cwilby 4/15/2025||

It's 2025's ROT13 cipher for API. /s

It's also "Model Context Protocol", a protocol for LLMs to interact with third-party services.

smcnally 4/15/2025|||

The ROT13 cipher for API is NVK. NVidia Knows

stevenalowe 4/15/2025|||

isn't that exactly how the Master Control Program started?

ChoHag 4/15/2025||

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bluSCALE4 4/15/2025||

Anyone else wish Google would just stay away from MCP? They manage to ruin everything.

sph 4/15/2025|

I hate to say it but Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Phase one is adopting it (you are here). Phase two is somehow turning it into a Web standard deeply integrated with Chrome which they have no real competition from and takes billions of dollars just to stay apace with.

Not sure about Extinguish to be honest, Google just wants the monopoly and they already have it.

lovich 4/14/2025||

Is there a good place to read on what the benefit of MCP is? I'm behind the curve on this agentic AI shit and am not quite sure where to look

skeeter2020 4/15/2025||

I'd start with the source and see if you think there's any benefits: https://modelcontextprotocol.io

marviel 4/14/2025||

search on HN for MCP, limit to last week -- there are a few articles there

curtisszmania 4/15/2025|

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