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MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open protocol, published by Anthropic in November 2024, that standardises how an AI application (assistant, agent, IDE) connects to external context sources: databases, APIs, filesyste…

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open protocol, published by Anthropic in November 2024, that standardises how an AI application (assistant, agent, IDE) connects to external context sources: databases, APIs, filesystems, SaaS tools, internal services.

An MCP server exposes resources (reads), tools (actions) and prompts (templates) that an MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code…) can consume in a uniform way. This avoids every AI application having to reinvent its integrations.

MCP has become, in 2025, the de-facto standard for agent tooling, with a large catalogue of open-source servers maintained by vendors (GitHub, Linear, Notion, Slack, Stripe…).

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