Mcp

MCP: The Integration Standard That Quietly Became Mandatory

If you were paying attention to AI tooling in late 2024, you heard about the Model Context Protocol (MCP). If you weren’t, you may have missed the quiet transition from “Anthropic’s new open standard” to “the de facto integration layer for AI agents.” By early 2026, MCP has 70+ client applications, 10,000+ active servers, 97+ million monthly SDK downloads, and—in December 2025—moved to governance under the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have all adopted it.