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CROSS-CATEGORY: 'Ship an MCP Server or You're Behind' — Agent-Native Distribution Becomes Default Across SaaS
Practitioner guides now treat an MCP server as mandatory SaaS packaging in 2026, citing MCP's adoption curve from Anthropic's Nov-2024 launch (~2M monthly SDK downloads) to OpenAI's April-2025 adoption (~22M) to Microsoft Copilot Studio integration by July 2025 (~45M). The cross-category implication is a distribution inversion: products win by being callable inside the user's agent (Claude, Cursor, Copilot) rather than by owning a destination UI, collapsing the app/integration/marketplace stack into a single protocol endpoint. Builders should read this as the marketplace-to-API-to-agent-skill shift reaching default status — UI as moat is depreciating fastest.
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