One MCP to Rule Them All!

MCP Dev Summit Toronto 2026

Oct 5, 2026 · 11:30–11:55 · Timezone not confirmed

Most MCP authors have figured out that one-tool-per-endpoint is a dead end. The smart ones now compress dozens of endpoints into a handful of well-designed tools. That's real progress. But the bloat just moved up a level. If your agent needs to do real work, it ends up loading five, ten, twenty MCP servers - and the tool list is bloated again, one floor up. The way out is one MCP that can reach anything. I'll show how: a single server backed by search + execute over an embedded OpenAPI spec, with Keycard handling identity end-to-end. Because the upstream APIs are already protected by Keycard, the auto-generated MCP can safely reach all of them - RFC 8693 token exchange, per-operation scopes pulled straight from the spec, Cedar policies for who's allowed what. Zero upstream secrets on the server. The first call is a bit slow - the agent has to search the spec and figure out the shape. But the MCP ships with a skill, so the agent learns how to call it once, then every call after skips the discovery and goes straight to execute. Over a session it gets faster, not slower. One MCP. Any API. Real identity. Skills that compound.

Session status: scheduled

Room: Terrace East + West

Track: Security, Identity + Trust

Level: Intermediate

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• Jerric Lyns John

  Affiliation at this event: Keycard

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