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Reflections on building with Model Context Protocol


It's great! With some rough edges

Dec 14, 2024 The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a new open standard designed by Anthropic, for connecting LLMs with external tools and data. MCP lets AI apps like Claude Desktop connect to local and remote servers that provide access to tools and resources like databases, search engines, and other APIs. And perhaps most peskily, Claude Desktop has strict timeouts on tool calls, which means that without any way to schedule work in the background, the client can’t do long-running tasks.

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