Beyond the Next '26 Keynote: How to Actually Build a Secure Agent with Remote MCPs (step-by-step)

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge The recent Google NEXT `26 developers keynote was full of really groundbreaking and exciting stuff, but there was one particular big shift that caught my attention: Remote MCPs and Agent Identities . Google's "security by default" principle now makes it super easy to safely spin up agents for our workflows in just a few lines of code. Since the surface area of where you could implement your agents is massive, in this blog post I wa