Designing a Home MCP Gateway for Conversational AI

Daniel asks how to design an MCP gateway for home use that conversational AI clients can actually connect to. We break down the transport options — Streamable HTTP vs WebSocket — and the authentication landscape: OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, device authorization grants, and mutual TLS. Then we get practical: Cloudflare Tunnel and Tailscale Funnel for safe network exposure, and why the ecosystem still feels immature for this exact use case. Episode #174108 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/174108