Biggest ever MCP update brings metadata, cybersecurity enhancements
The developers of the Model Context Protocol, an open-source technology that underpins many artificial intelligence applications, today released a new version of the software.
The release is described as the biggest update to the project since its launch.
The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, was open-sourced by Anthropic PBC in November 2024. The AI developer donated the project to an industry consortium called the Agentic AI Foundation about a year later. The group, which operates under the wing of the Linux Foundation, is backed by Anthropic, OpenAI Group PBC and other major tech firms.
MCP enables AI applications to interact with external systems. For example, an AI agent can use MCP to fetch a record from a database or update an online store’s product catalog. The technology also lends itself to more complex tasks.
