Stop Chatting With a Stranger — Make Your AI an Assistant That Knows Your Business
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Your AI assistant is only as useful as the context it can reach. Ask Claude to summarize your latest GitHub PR and it draws a blank — unless you've given it a way in. Ask ChatGPT to pull last week's Slack thread and it can't — unless it's connected.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard that changes this. Originally developed by Anthropic, now adopted by OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and the broader AI ecosystem — it lets any compatible model connect to any compatible tool through a single, consistent interface. One protocol. Any model. Any tool.