Model Context Protocol
The open standard for connecting AI to tools and data.
An open protocol that lets any AI client connect to tool and data servers; supported across the major model providers and IDEs.
- Vendor
- Anthropic (open standard)
- Category
- Agent frameworks
- Pricing
- Open source
- Open source
- Yes
- License
- MIT
- Platforms
- TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, Go
- Launched
- 2024
- Website
- modelcontextprotocol.io
Features
- Tools, resources & prompts
- Remote servers with OAuth
- Thousands of community servers
Best for
- Agents
- Enterprise
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- Pydantic AI — Pydantic. Type-safe agent framework for Python.
- Microsoft Agent Framework — Microsoft. Successor to AutoGen and Semantic Kernel.
- Mastra — Mastra. The TypeScript agent framework.