What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?

Answer

The Model Context Protocol is an open standard that defines how AI applications connect to external tools, data sources, and services in a consistent way. An MCP server exposes resources, tools, and prompts that an MCP-aware client and its language model can discover and use over a standard interface. By standardizing these integrations, MCP lets the same connectors work across different AI clients instead of building one-off integrations for each.