https://rickymoorhouse.uk/tags/mcp/ Recent content in Mcp on Ricky Moorhouse Hugo en-gb Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2026/mcp-ponderings/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2026/mcp-ponderings/ <p>Agents are only as good as the access they have to accurate data and business functions. LLMs have a cut off point as to what they know - they're trained on a set of data and anything beyond that is unknown to them - therefore to build useful agents you need to provide a way for them to access data beyond that corpus. This could be more your own business data or just more recent information. To enable this Anthropic <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol">introduced Model Context Protocol</a> (MCP) as an open standard to build these connections to data-sources and tooling. Since then, MCP has exploded into the most common way of providing tools to AI Agents.</p>