Add client credentials docs for MCP servers

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Summary

• Documents the new client credentials authentication method for MCP servers, which enables machine-to-machine access without an interactive OAuth login flow
• Adds a step-by-step guide covering credential creation in the dashboard, token exchange via the API, and using tokens with authenticated MCP endpoints
• Includes credential management guidance (disabling and deleting credentials)

What shipped

Server-side support for OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant on MCP servers. Admins can now create client credentials from the dashboard and use them to obtain access tokens for authenticated MCP endpoints programmatically, without requiring a user login flow.

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Note

Low Risk
Low risk documentation-only change that doesn’t alter runtime behavior, but could cause confusion if the token endpoint/expiry details are inaccurate.

Overview
Adds a new Client credentials section to ai/model-context-protocol.mdx describing machine-to-machine authentication for /authed/mcp.

Provides step-by-step instructions to create credentials in the dashboard, exchange them via POST /authed/mcp/oauth/token (with a curl example), and use the resulting Bearer token, plus guidance on disabling/deleting credentials and token expiry.

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