{
  "id": "ao-mcp-transports",
  "title": "MCP transports and trust surfaces",
  "topic": "ao-mcp",
  "columns": [
    "Transport",
    "Typical use",
    "Trust concern",
    "Related slug"
  ],
  "rows": [
    [
      "stdio",
      "Local process MCP server",
      "Process and filesystem permissions",
      "ao-mcp-transports-and-trust"
    ],
    [
      "SSE / Streamable HTTP",
      "Remote MCP",
      "Network + auth; treat tools as untrusted until reviewed",
      "ao-mcp-transports-and-trust"
    ],
    [
      "Tool filters",
      "Limit exposed tools",
      "Schema bloat still costs tokens",
      "ao-mcp"
    ]
  ],
  "related_slugs": [
    "ao-mcp",
    "ao-mcp-transports-and-trust"
  ],
  "provenance": [
    {
      "title": "iinventedlight Library notes",
      "url": "https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/",
      "license": "per-note",
      "accessed": "2026-11-09"
    }
  ],
  "as_of": "2026-11-09",
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0 summaries; see related notes for source licenses",
  "markdown": "/library/artifacts/ao-mcp-transports.table.md"
}