MCP: The USB Port for LLM Integrations
Inside Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol
Good morning!
How many times have you started a new AI project and found yourself re-wiring the same GitHub, Slack, or SQL integration?
That annoying code copy-paste repetition and lack of norms between organizations and individuals is exactly why Model Context Protocol, or MCP, exists.
MCP is an open standard released a few months ago in November 2024 by Anthropic to formalize how we feed large language models the three things they crave most: extra data, good prompts, and external tools.
The goal is that everyone uses it so that all tools and databases become easily accessible through the same protocol, reducing the implementation complexity of almost anything LLM-related.
Let's dive in with this week's video (and article version here):
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