What I learn while building.
Cloudflare shipped MCP server portals — Access as the OAuth provider, one login for all your own and third-party MCPs. When it saves your day, when it doesn't, and what the pattern asks for in return.
Coordinating agents isn't a new problem: it's the old problem of coordinating people, with a different kind of executor. If your company already knows how to operate as a team — onboarding, runbooks, issue trackers, retros — you're already halfway there.
Cars used to be diagnosed by ear. Then OBD-II and the CAN bus arrived and mechanics stopped being tribal. Software is going through the same shift right now: OpenTelemetry standardizes how infra reports what's happening, and MCP standardizes how an agent can ask it.
Excitement kills production systems. Start with the most boring agent possible and let the business decide when to crank the voltage.