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7 rules for building production-grade MCP servers
A developer who built three MCP servers shares seven design principles for moving beyond demos. Key lessons: minimize tool count to save context, use resources for reads, fail closed on auth but open on rate limits, and annotate tool safety. Writes must use optimistic concurrency to prevent data loss.
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Practical advice from the trenches, but the real test is whether these patterns survive as MCP evolves and more agents hit production.
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