What Is MCP? Model Context Protocol Explained for 2026
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard created by Anthropic in November 2024 that gives large language models a universal, JSON-RPC 2.0-based interface for connecting to external tools, databases, and services. Instead of writing custom connectors for every LLM-plus-tool pair (the N×M problem), developers expose capabilities through MCP servers and consume them through MCP clients … Read more