What is an MCP?

Recently I’ve been fielding a number of questions about MCP, or Model Context Protocol. So I thought I’d write a quick post to explain what it is, and why it’s important. When someone asks me “what is an MCP”, it is clear that they aren’t asking about the MCP protocol, but rather what an MCP server is, and why it matters, and how it can be implemented. Does it need to be AI, or just used by AI? At…