Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Model Context Protocol is an open protocol that standardizes how LLM applications connect to external data sources, tools, and runtime context. It separates the concern of providing context from the model interaction itself, allowing AI applications to access resources through a common interface. The project includes the specification, documentation, SDKs, maintained servers, and community infrastructure around the protocol. MCP is useful for AI-powered IDEs, chat systems, agent platforms, workflow tools, and custom enterprise assistants. It gives developers a consistent way to expose tools, prompts, resources, and server capabilities to language models. Its broader ecosystem supports many languages, including TypeScript, Python, Java, Kotlin, C#, Go, PHP, Ruby, Rust, and Swift.