A Critical Look at MCP

A Critical Look at MCP "MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. Just as USB-C provides a standardized way to connect your devices to various peripherals and accessories, MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to different data sources and tools." ― Anthropic TL;DR I would like for this to turn out to be a skill issue on my part, and hope that I'm missing something. During the past month,MCP (Model Context Protocol), which would enable LLMs to become agents and interact with the world, has really been blowing up. The idea is straightforward: let's standardize an API for LLM/Agents to interact with the world and how to inform the LLM/Agent about it. Things are moving really fast, and IBM recently released their own "orthogonal standard" to MCP called Agent Communication Protocol (ACP), followed closely by Google announcing Agent2Agent (A2A). MCP Servers and Clients are bein ... Read full article.