As someone involved in the API standards space for a long time, I’ve always been interested in how software talks to software. One of the most exciting things to me about AI has been the possibility of automating key aspects of it, like making it possible to build powerful software agents that talk with the world of APIs around us.
Now, Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the AI-native standard for continuing on the path started by previous standards like REST, SOAP and XML-RPC. Introduced late last year by Anthropic, MCP is an open…