Anthropic releases the Model Context Protocol open standard
Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to data sources and tools through a single interface, and donated it to a new open-governance foundation.
Why it matters
MCP is becoming the de facto standard for connecting agents to tools and data; supporting it has become table stakes for any serious coding agent, IDE, or enterprise AI platform.
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