Why it matters
GitHub operates one of the most heavily-utilised MCP servers in the ecosystem, with over 4 million downloads of the stdio server alone. Discover the architectural decisions, technical challenges and lessons learned while building and scaling a remote MCP server on production infrastructure. The session walks through th
My takeaway: Lessons from Scaling GitHub's Remote MCP Server — Sam Morrow, GitHub is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.