The open standard enabling AI models to safely access your data and tools. Stop building fragile integrations and start using the universal protocol.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful but isolated. They don't know about your database, your internal documents, or your live metrics.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) changes that. It acts as a universal "USB port" for AI, allowing developers to build a connector once and use it across any AI application like Claude Desktop, Cursor, or custom agents.
One protocol for all data sources
Simple JSON-RPC based API
Client-controlled access
Community driven standard
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard created by Anthropic that enables AI models to safely access external data sources and tools. It acts as a universal "USB port" for AI, allowing developers to build a connector once and use it across any AI application like Claude Desktop, Cursor, or custom agents.
LLMs are powerful but isolated. They don't know about your database, documents, or live metrics. MCP solves this by providing a standardized way to connect AI to any data source. Key benefits: 1) Build once, use everywhere, 2) Secure client-controlled access, 3) Open source and community-driven, 4) Simple JSON-RPC based API.
MCP uses a client-server architecture with JSON-RPC communication. MCP servers expose resources (data), tools (actions), and prompts (templates) to AI clients. The client (like Claude Desktop) connects to servers and can request data or execute actions while maintaining security through user-controlled permissions.
MCP is supported by Claude Desktop (Anthropic), Cursor IDE, Cline, and many custom AI agent frameworks. The protocol is open source, so any AI application can implement MCP client support to connect to the growing ecosystem of MCP servers.
MCP servers can be built in any language using the official SDKs (TypeScript, Python) or by implementing the JSON-RPC protocol directly. A basic server defines resources (what data to expose), tools (what actions to allow), and handles client requests. See the MCP documentation for quickstart guides.