Introduction The latest version of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification introduces an authorization flow. While it will take a bit of time for the new MCP specification to be widely supported, you can already add authentication to client and server following the previous MCP version. You only need an MCP client that can receive an access token and pass it to the MCP server and, obviously, an MCP server that verifies the token. In this post, we will detail how you can enforce authent...