Stephen Downes

The model context protocol (MCP) was introduced last November by Anthropic and has spread across the large language model community. This page is OpenAI's documentation describing how it too now supports MCP, which essentially cements the importance of the protocol for developers. What it does is to allow an LLM to access a 'context' in the form of information and services from local or remote systems; an MPC server would allow chatGPT to access a database, for example. Image: Norah Sakal.