# Introducing the Model Context Protocol Anthropic

<https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol>

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## What Jamie wrote

Where your data lives is critical to building AI applications, so this new protocol from Anthropic is a big deal allowing models to access data that is in other sources. 

> The Model Context Protocol is an open standard that enables developers to build secure, two-way connections between their data sources and AI-powered tools. The architecture is straightforward: developers can either expose their data through MCP servers or build AI applications (MCP clients) that connect to these servers.

More reading at [this quickstart](https://glama.ai/blog/2024-11-25-model-context-protocol-quickstart) and the [documentation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction).

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