MCP is a doorway, not magic
Explain MCP in plain terms and distinguish connected context from model memory.
Hook Someone says, 'Let's just connect ChatGPT to our tools,' and the room splits between excitement and vague fear. Teach MCP is best understood as a standard doorway between an AI application and approved external systems. Without a standard, every assistant-to-tool connection becomes a custom integration: one shape for files, another for databases, another for calendars, another for internal apps. MCP gives clients and servers a common language for listing available capabilities, asking for context, and invoking tools. The important part is that MCP does not make the model all-knowing. It gives the assistant a controlled path to ask a…
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