Companies everywhere are trying to leverage AI to boost internal productivity metrics. Some, like Ramp and Intercom , are succeeding. Many are failing . To make matters more complicated, the narrative around what tooling enables these gains is constantly shifting. For software engineers, auto-complete via GitHub Copilot was the bleeding-edge tool of choice in 2024. Then it was Cursor for much of 2025 . 2026 has been dominated by command-line-based coding agents like Claude Code and Codex . While the tooling layer winds ebb and flow, many of them have come to share a number of common primitives: open standards that help configure and guide these tools’ capabilities . Agent Skills . MCP . Plugins . These all present vendor-agnostic mechanisms by which we can configure the tools today. The catch: These mechanisms aren’t one-size-fits-all. How you can connect to an MCP server depends on your organization’s security posture.…