Remote MCP Uptime Is Not Production Readiness

<p>On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code — its flagship AI coding agent — inside a routine npm update. No hack. No reverse

<h2> The Setup </h2> <p>MCP (Model Context Protocol) lets AI agents call external tools. Instead of just reading files and running bash, the agent gets structured access to APIs,

<p>Most API documentation is written for humans.</p> <p>MCP tool descriptions are different.</p> <p>They are read by the model that decides what to call next.</p> <p>That means

<p>Four agents entered an infinite loop in November 2025. They ran for 11 days. The bill was $47,000. Nobody noticed until it was over.</p> <p>The team was running a market

<p>In January and February 2026, security researchers filed <a href="https://www.heyuan110.com/posts/ai/2026-03-10-mcp-security-2026/" rel="noopener noreferrer">30 CVEs against

<p>Vertex AI has been Google Cloud's AI development platform since 2021. On April 22, 2026, at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google retired it — not with a deprecation notice,

<h2> The Hidden Tax on Every MCP Request </h2> <p>Here is something nobody talks about when they demo MCP integrations: token costs at scale.</p> <p>I have been running MCP setups

<p>If you’ve browsed agent engineering discussions recently, you’ve seen the same hype everywhere: MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the new standard for AI agents. Every new