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A customer wants to expose internal APIs to a model via MCP. Design it safely: auth, least privilege, versioning.

An Anthropic-signature integration question. The hidden rubric: tools are a curated product surface, not a proxy for your OpenAPI spec, plus the auth model and confused-deputy trap most candidates miss.

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An Anthropic-signature integration question. The hidden rubric: tools are a curated product surface, not a proxy for your OpenAPI spec, plus the auth model and confused-deputy trap most candidates miss.

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