Model Context Protocol

Open standard for connecting LLMs to tools and data.

What is Model Context Protocol?

Model Context Protocol. An open standard from Anthropic for connecting LLMs to tools, data, and prompts in a uniform way. MCP servers expose tools that any compliant LLM client can use — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, etc. The bootcamp’s Module 4 builds a custom MCP server from scratch.

Key Features

Open standard — any LLM client can connect to any MCP server
Three primitives: Tools (call), Resources (read), Prompts (templates)
Transport-agnostic (stdio, HTTP, WebSocket)
Reference SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Java, C#
Growing registry of community + first-party servers
Native support in Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, and others

FAQ

Why MCP instead of writing tool calls myself? +

Because once you ship an MCP server, every compliant client can use it — Claude Desktop, Cursor, your own agents — without per-client integration work. Same logic as USB standardising peripherals.

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