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In just the few months since its announcement last year, Model Context Protocol (or MCP) has become the de facto standard for connecting LLMs to external tools. MCP is described as “USB-C for web services”, and there’s something to that idea: its open nature means that whether you want to connect an MCP server like Zapier to Claude, Shortwave, Cursor, or, soon, ChatGPT, it’s always going to work. Effectively, MCP provides an abstraction layer for different APIs that can all come together and “talk” to LLMs with a shared communication system.
So far, you’ve probably heard of MCP in the context of web services that expose their APIs to AI apps and allow for things like connecting Claude to your Todoist account. As I demonstrated a couple of weeks ago, I use that a lot. But MCP servers can also run locally on your computer without talking to any cloud server, and a great example of this technology is HyperContext, the new Mac app by indie developer Anders Borum (maker of MacStories favorite Working Copy).