We hear you… There is always a trade-off between analytics and user privacy. We believe that open-source solutions are the way to go in this space, however no implementation is going to suit every use-case.
MCP supports authentication via OAuth2, which is what we use here. For the most part, this means that a browser window is opened and the user can sign in with their GitHub or Google account. The access token is verified by us and passed to the upstream MCP server.
We'd love to allow orgs to bring their own IdP but there is some refactoring we still have to do for this.
It is indeed amazing. Like, the death of Cleopatra in 69 BC is closer to our present day than it is to the building of the great pyramid of Khufu (~2600 BC).
I'm kind of in the same boat (but with VSCode). In addition to that, I found that it didn't make things too much easier than something like MVC with built-in template/html. The context integration seems like a huge footgun, since it just panics if you access a value that doesn't exist.