What Is an MCP Server? How AI Agents Connect to Tools Safely
An MCP server is the plug a model uses to reach a real system. Here's what that actually means — and what an enterprise-grade version of it has to do that a vanilla one doesn't.
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An MCP server is the plug a model uses to reach a real system. Here's what that actually means — and what an enterprise-grade version of it has to do that a vanilla one doesn't.
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