MCP: Connecting Agents to Apps and Data

AI Agents and Tool Use Intermediate 4 min read Published
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Every AI app wants to connect to the same things: files, GitHub, databases, calendars, Slack. Without a standard, each app writes its own connector for each service. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that fixes this: build a connector once as an MCP server, and any app that speaks MCP can use it. People call it “USB-C for AI apps”.

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