What is the MCP?
Here’s what the official MCP website has to say about it:
The Model Context Protocol, MCP is an open protocol designed to standardize how applications provide context to large language models (LLMs). Think of it like a USB-C port for AI applications, providing a standardized way to connect AI models to various data sources and tools.
What does that mean for app developers?
It means the way we build our applications is changing and becoming more standardized. By learning and using MCP, all your apps will be able to communicate with each other and share data in a standardized way. That means you will spend less time worrying about how to connect or glue your app to other apps and more time building the features that matter.
We’ll dive more into the details of these concepts in the next chapter, but for now, we understand at a mile-high level what the MCP is and how it works, and what major components are involved.
