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Lazy authentication for MCP serversconnectors/building/lazy-authentication

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## See what the user experiences
## Build lazy authentication on your server
### Decide which tools need the user's account
### Answer a protected call with 401 before the MCP SDK runs
#### Don't wrap the refusal in a 200 tool error
### Serve the discovery documents
### Identify Claude with a client ID metadata document
#### Match loopback redirect URIs without the port
### Ask for more scope with 403
### Allow for discovery caching
## Test the lazy-auth path
## Next steps