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Transport and authorized access

Local processes, endpoints, streaming, scopes, tokens and revocation.

What you’ll learn

stdio connects a local process
Recognize messages traveling through a launched process's standard streams.
About 4 minutes · Open activity
Streamable HTTP reaches an endpoint
Recognize a network transport for MCP messages.
About 4 minutes · Open activity
Streaming is delivery, not a separate capability
Separate result delivery from what the operation does.
About 4 minutes · Open activity
Authentication and authorization differ
Separate identity from allowed operations.
About 4 minutes · Open activity
OAuth can delegate limited access
Explain scoped authorization without sharing an account password with the agent.
About 4 minutes · Open activity
Tokens have an intended recipient
Recognize why a token for one service should not be forwarded indiscriminately.
About 4 minutes · Open activity
Disconnecting and revoking differ
Identify local configuration removal and provider-side access revocation.
About 3 minutes · Open activity
Read a connection card
Choose the transport, identify where credentials are used and explain one allowed action, one denied action and how to revoke access.
About 5 minutes · Open activity
Explain an MCP exchange
Trace a fictional notes integration from host to server and back, using a declared protocol version.
About 5 minutes · Open activity