AI Glossary

Model Context Protocol

Also called MCP

An open standard for connecting AI applications to outside tools and data, so one integration works with any AI application that supports it. Anthropic introduced it in November 2024, and since December 2025 it has been governed by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation.

See also

  • Tool use

    A model's ability to use outside tools (such as a search engine, a calculator, a database or running code) by writing a structured request that the surrounding software carries out and whose result the model reads.

Source: Anthropic, Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation (2025) (opens in a new tab)

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Orbyt Labs, Model Context Protocol (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/model-context-protocol

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Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset

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