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Model Context Protocol Aims to Standardize How AI Connects to External Tools

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard designed to simplify how AI assistants communicate with external services such as databases, APIs, and local files. Before MCP, developers had to build and maintain separate integrations for every service an AI application needed to access. MCP introduces a unified interface — often compared to USB-C — where a single protocol can expose many different capabilities through one server. AI assistants using MCP can perform multi-step workflows, such as locating a file, summarizing its contents, and sending an email, without manual switching between apps. Adoption is growing across open-source projects and AI tooling, making MCP an increasingly relevant skill for developers building AI-powered applications.

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