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MCP is a standard way for AI assistants to plug into tools and data. Here's what it is, why it exists, and why it matters — in plain English.
The two words trip everyone up. The short version: the server offers tools, the client (inside your AI app) uses them. Here's the clear split.
Not everything lives in code or on a web page. Drop in a PDF, a Word doc or a spreadsheet — from the dashboard or the API — and I'll read it and answer from it.
An MCP server exposes one system's tools and data to any AI assistant that speaks MCP. Here's what it does and what's inside one.
An MCP client is the part of an AI app that connects out to MCP servers and lets the model actually use their tools. Here's how it works.