Article

What is Model Context Protocol (MCP)?

IBM · ibm.com

A vendor-neutral explanation you can forward to a technical co-founder.

Open on ibm.com ↗

The question it answers

  1. What is MCP, and why does it matter for my agents?

Read with it

  1. The original announcement that started the standard. anthropic.com Article Introducing the Model Context Protocol Anthropic
  2. The official docs, and the USB-C analogy at the source. modelcontextprotocol.io Guide What is the Model Context Protocol? MCP project
  3. Where the standard stands after a year of industry-wide adoption. blog.modelcontextprotocol.io Article One Year of MCP: November 2025 Spec Release MCP project
  4. The definitive analysis of why this standard beat the alternatives. latent.space Article Why MCP Won Latent Space (swyx)
  5. The origin story from the two engineers who built it. latent.space Podcast The Creators of Model Context Protocol Latent Space (David Soria Parra, Justin Spahr-Summers)
  6. The five reasons MCP won, in five tweets. x.com Thread Why MCP Won (thread) Latent Space
eChai Partner Brands The partnership →