MCP
Model Context Protocol
Judgement: Adopt
Became the AI tool-integration default in 2024–2025.
Open protocol for connecting AI applications and agents to external systems: data sources, tools, and workflows. The "USB-C for AI": one spec, many servers and clients.
For data architectures, MCP is becoming the standard way LLMs discover and query data products, semantic models, and catalogs. Created by Anthropic and now hosted at the Linux Foundation; Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, and many others speak it.
At a glance
- Category
- AI Interfaces
- Governance
- Linux Foundation (created by Anthropic; multi-vendor steering)
- Status
- Active; rapid adoption since late 2024
- First released
- 2024
Links
Related standards
Other standards in AI Interfaces.
- A2A — Agent2Agent Protocol
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