Model Context Protocol

Open protocol introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 for connecting AI models to external tools and data sources; donated to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation in December 2025.

Read the specification ↗ modelcontextprotocol.io On GitHub ↗

Part of the thread Agents acting for us proposes

maintained by

• Anthropic organization 2021 (2024–2025) [src]

created by

• David Soria Parra person [src]
• Justin Spahr-Summers person [src]

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_Context_Protocol