Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What MCP Is and Why Every AI Builder Needs It Think of the Model Context Protocol as the USB standard for AI tools. Before USB, connecting a peripheral to a computer meant buying a device-specific driver, hoping the manufacturer had written one for your operating system, and resigning yourself to a reinstall if it broke. Before MCP, connecting an AI model to an external tool meant writing a bespoke integration for every model-tool pair: one connector for Claude and your database, a different one for GPT-4 and your database, a third for Gemini and your database. MCP, created by Anthropic and released in November 2024, eliminates that matrix of integrations. You write one server, and any MCP-compatible model — Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI agents, Google AI Studio — can use it…
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