MCP, or Model Context Protocol, was developed as an open standard by Anthropic and was later donated to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, which was created late last year. In a nutshell, MCP is a universal standard that connects AI models to external systems. As more and more companies adopted it, it quickly became possible to plug AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and, of course, Claude, into apps and services such as Notion, Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, and Zapier, letting LLMs access data and perform actions across them. There are, of course, more technical aspects involved in a