This post is adapted from my presentation, "A Crash Course in MCP: A Beginners Guide Using TypeScript"
The tech industry frequently relies on heavy jargon to explain simple concepts. If you read the official documentation for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), it states: "An open-source standard for connecting AI applications... Think of it like a USB-C port for AI applications."
While accurate, this isn't the most intuitive mental model for software engineers.
For me, the way that it made sense was giving it a more practical definition:
MCP is a set of rules that defines how to feed context into a model.
