Building with MCP and the Claude API
Building with MCP and the Claude API


Author: Anthropic – Duration: 00:25:59
Anthropic's Alex Albert (Claude Relations), John Welsh (Engineering, MCP Team), and Michael Cohen (Engineering, Claude API Team) discuss the origins of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard for connecting AI applications to external systems, best practices for getting started with MCP, and how MCP and Claude work together to enable systems more powerful agents. 00:00 – Introductions 00:30 – What is MCP? 1:30 – The origins of MCP 2:50 – Open source MCP 5:00 – Remote MCP support 6:15: MCP registers 7:40 – Preferred MCPs: Context7 and Playwright 10:40 – Using the MCP Claude API connector 11:50 – Prompt engineering with MCP 14:20 – Best practices for managing context and tools with MCP 18:20 – How John and Michael use MCP Servers for project management, home automation, and more 8:00 p.m. – Understanding “emerging” behaviors when Claude and MCP servers work together 10:50 p.m. – The future of MCP: growth of the protocol and ecosystem Learn more about MCP: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro
Learn more about the Claude development platform: https://www.claude.com/platform/api
Learn more about how to write effective tools for AI agents: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/writing-tools-for-agents






