Agent Series (10): MCP Protocol — Standardizing the Tool Ecosystem

The article explains how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes AI agent tool access through a host-client-server model.

Instead of copying functions into each app, tools can live in shared MCP servers and be discovered dynamically by agents.

This reduces duplicate definitions, code drift, and maintenance overhead across agent systems.

MCP also supports language-agnostic tooling and multiple transports, making tool ecosystems easier to reuse and extend.