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Chapter 10 of 23 · Level 4 · Giving Models Tools

MCP & Connectors

What an MCP server actually exposes, the two ways to reach it, the handshake that discovers its tools, and the four things MCP leaves you to solve.

  1. 10.1

    What MCP Actually Standardises

    MCP is described as USB for tools, and that is true of the plug. Underneath it standardises three things a model can be given, two ways to connect, and one handshake. Everything it does not standardise becomes your problem.

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