Everyone is excited for the promise of “Digital coworkers” in this agentic era. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is all anyone can talk about these days when it comes to agentic enablement. But what if you have spent the last decade building APIs for your organization? Do you have to throw out all that work and adopt the MCP-first strategy?
Before you throw the baby out with the bathwater, let’s first consider the multiple approaches to API and MCP integrations that might serve us as we are building agentic applications.

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