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2026-07-31 05:16
Will MCP Become the REST of AI Agents? What Developers Should Watch
AI agents have an integration problem.
A useful agent needs access to files, databases, developer tools, search systems, and business applications. Until recently, every connection required a custom adapter. That works for a prototype, but it becomes expensive and fragile when one client must support dozens of tools—or one tool must support several AI platforms.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) ...