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MCP Server Architecture Patterns: Five recurring patterns and four anti-patterns catalogued from production deployments
An industry experience paper catalogues five recurring architectural patterns for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers—Resource Gateway, Tool Orchestrator, Stateful Session Server, Proxy Aggregator, and Domain-Specific Adapter—drawn from 15 servers including five production deployments on the ANSYR voice AI platform and ten from the official MCP registry. The paper also documents four anti-patterns and cross-cutting concerns around authentication, versioning, and observability. A quantitative evaluation includes inter-rater reliability (Cohen's kappa = 0.76 on 54 held-out servers), transport overhead measurements, and a tool-count study showing tool-selection accuracy drops below 90% between 10–15 tools for Claude Haiku 4.5 and between 20–30 tools for Claude Sonnet 4. Code, corpus, and prompts are released as a replication package.
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