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An LLM does not need to understand MCP


Model Context Protocol (MCP) has became the standard for tool calling when building agents, but contrary to popular belief your LLM does not need to understand MCP.

Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is a way to standardize how your agent connects to data sources like tools, prompts, resources, and samples. Instead of manually writing code for each tool in a custom format, MCP defines a consistent schema and communication pattern. Next, let’s look at how this fits into the bigger picture of context engineering, and why abstraction layers like MCP make things easier for humans, not models.

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