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Model Context Protocol

MCP, Model Context Protocol, is an open protocol that connects AI assistants (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Claude Code) to data sources and tools. It lets an AI agent call functions on a service after authentication, returning structured results the AI can reason about. Anthropic published MCP as an open spec in late 2024; ZopNight implements it as a read-only data adapter.

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