Why we built—and donated—the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Anthropic

Anthropic's Stuart Ritchie speaks with co-creator David Soria Parra about the development of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard to connect AI to external tools and services—and why Anthropic is donating it to the Linux Foundation. 00:00 - What is MCP? 01:21 - The problem MCP solves