5: How Does MCP Work?
This is the final article in a series of five, describing what MCP is, why you need it, and how it helps AI agents talk to your system.
This is the final article in a series of five, describing what MCP is, why you need it, and how it helps AI agents talk to your system.
This is the fourth article in a series of five, describing what MCP is, why you need it, and how it helps AI agents talk to your system.
This is the third article in a series of five, describing what MCP is, why you need it, and how it helps AI agents talk to your system.
Large language models can understand requests, reason about context, and suggest useful next steps.
But business work does not happen inside a language model.
Why is the model context protocol, MCP, needed? AI can reason about work, but it cannot safely participate in real systems without a controlled interface.