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Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Model Bağlam Protokolü (MCP)

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems, including data sources, tools, and workflows.

Review status: 2026-12-04

Technical explanation

In MCP’s client-server architecture, a host creates clients that connect to servers; servers can expose resources, tools, and prompts through the protocol.

Conceptual boundaries

MCP specifies an interoperability protocol; it is not itself an agent, a model, a tool implementation, or a promise that an integration is safe or authorized.

Provider-neutral example

Illustrative: a support agent uses an MCP client to request a product-catalog resource from a separately operated server, then cites the returned record in a draft response.

Limitations

Compatibility, permissions, data handling, server quality, and action approval remain deployment-specific decisions; this entry makes no security or performance claim.

Related concepts

Atomic claims and evidence

  1. 1.1Model Context Protocol: What is MCP?
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    Model Context Protocol: What is MCP?
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    Authoritative source
    Exact locator
    ‘What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?’
    Supported claim
    MCP describes itself as an open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems, including data sources, tools, and workflows.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This reports MCP’s stated scope; it does not establish that every AI integration uses MCP or that MCP changes an underlying model.
  2. 2.1Model Context Protocol: Architecture
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    Model Context Protocol: Architecture
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    Architecture overview; server features
    Supported claim
    MCP documentation describes a host-client-server architecture in which servers can expose tools, resources, and prompts.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    The architecture describes protocol roles, not a required product topology or an authorization policy for a particular server.
  3. 3.1Model Context Protocol: What is MCP?
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    Model Context Protocol: What is MCP?
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    ‘Start Building’: Build servers and Build clients
    Supported claim
    MCP’s introductory documentation distinguishes building servers that expose data and tools from building clients that connect to MCP servers.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This distinction does not say that a server is trustworthy, that a client may perform every offered action, or that a user has approved an action.