Anthropic, the AI company known for its chatbot Claude, has introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), designed to enable seamless integration of AI systems with external data sources. The protocol is open-source, with comprehensive documentation already available.
MCP aims to streamline the use of AI in existing business and development tools, addressing the challenge of varying data handling methods across different tools. By adopting MCP, developers can easily enable AI compatibility by adding functionality to publish data via MCP servers.
Anthropic has released a reference implementation of MCP, which can integrate with tools like Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Git, Postgres, and Puppeteer. A demonstration video shows Claude performing tasks such as creating repositories and branches on GitHub through MCP.