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Shipping an MCP Server: Desktop App vs Hosted Web App

We ship two Model Context Protocol servers. One runs inside a desktop application, on the machine where the data already lives. The other runs as a hosted service behind an account, in front of a multi-tenant database. They speak the same protocol and share almost none of the same decisions. Most writing about MCP stops at the hello-world tutorial: register a tool, return a string, done. The…

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Two Model Context Protocol servers are shipped, one inside a desktop application and the other as a hosted service behind an account. They speak the same protocol but follow different deployment models, leading to various distinctions in deployment, distribution, versioning, authentication, credentials, and available functionalities.

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