{"slug":"mcp-adoption-survey","title":"The MCP adoption survey: 800 AI engineers' real numbers","summary":"74% in production. 44% want identity next. The patterns we expected and the two we didn't.","lede":"800 working AI engineers, ten questions, six weeks of fielding. MCP moved from cool-but-niche to plumbing-by-default in 2026.","date":"2026-05-04","reading_time":"6 min","category":"Research","tags":["MCP","survey","engineers","adoption"],"image":"https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/MCP%20Adoption%20Survey/1500_900/blog.jpg","url":"/blog/mcp-adoption-survey.html","wordcount":680,"related":["mcp-identity-12-lines","manav-mcp-server","state-of-agent-identity-2026"],"schema":"NewsArticle"}