Why Your MCP Server Needs a Network Layer (And How to Add One in 30 Seconds)

You've got an MCP server running. Locally, it's perfect. Then someone asks: "Can another agent on a different machine call it?" You spin up a VPN. Or punch a hole in the firewall. Or route it through a cloud proxy. Half a day gone, and now you've got a central dependency you didn't want. There's a cleaner way. The Problem with MCP's Transport Layer MCP is genuinely great at what it does: connecting an agent to its tools via a clean, structured protocol. But it was designed with a human-run serve