What Is Model Context Protocol (MCP)? A Plain...

If you've seen "MCP" appear three times this week — in a job description, a Slack thread, and a GitHub repo — and nodded along without being entirely sure what it is, this article is for you. Model Context Protocol is not complicated. It solves a specific problem, it does it cleanly, and once you understand what that problem was, the solution makes immediate sense. Here's everything you need to know. The Problem MCP Solves AI models are good at reasoning. They are, by themselves, entirely isolat