MCP - The Model Context Protocol

How to MCP

https://simplescraper.io/blog/how-to-mcp

MCP vs Code Execution

Interesting article on how Anthropic are maturing their view of MCPs and their usage.

Whilst Model Context Protocol is a fantastic standard for publishing and exposing APIs to be used by LLMs for tool calling they are inherently verbose. This verbosity pollutes the context window with unnecessary tokens. In addition they call out the problem with Intermediate tool results, where the results of the API calls are included in the context. Whilst this could be advantageous, it does mean that all the data is encoded in tokens. If this is purely payload data and the LLM has no business reading it, it both pollutes the context and creates a risk of data leakage

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mcp