Why we built (and donated) the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Why we built (and donated) the Model Context Protocol (MCP)


Author: Anthropic – Duration: 00:35:32
Anthropic's Stuart Ritchie speaks with co-creator David Soria Parra about the development of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI to external tools and services, and why Anthropic is donating it to the Linux Foundation. 00:00 – What is MCP? 01:21 – The problem MCP solves 02:46 – The USB-C analogy 03:45 – How MCP started 05:36 – What makes MCP different 08:05 – Community adoption 09:54 – Mandate-free standards 11:05 – From the Anthropic hackathon to Hacker News 13:37 – The decision to open source 15:18 – Donate from MCP to the Linux Foundation 17:27 – The Agentic AI Foundation 20:34 – Reviews of MCP 28:21 – The future of MCP 30:58 – What have people built with MCP? 32:53 – Tips for non-developers 34:58 – What David is most proud of






