The short version: just like a person might need a calculator to add some numbers, an AI may need to access to some tools to do its job. This creates a need for toolmakers to have a way to provide their tools to the AI. Enter "an emerging open standard from Anthropic called Model Context Protocol (MCP)." I like this article because I like the way it defined 'agents' in this content: "Agents are just AIs that can choose for themselves what tools to use and keep running it a loop until they're done." Here are some open source MCP servers. Have fun exploring. There's the MCP subreddit.
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