Ryan Cooke

Ryan Cooke is an Engineering Lead at WorkOS who has done production work on MCP context management. His MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 keynote, "Context is More Than Tools — Why the 'C' in MCP is More Relevant Than Ever," argued that managing context (not tools) is what decides whether an agent succeeds or fails in production, and described the context engine WorkOS built to resolve identity, access, and task-specific tool instructions before the LLM ever sees a request. Attendees building or deploying MCP-based agents will get grounded, practitioner-level insight into what breaks at scale.