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  "summary": "Open protocol that standardizes how AI applications connect to external tools, data sources and prompts via MCP servers.",
  "description": "The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard, introduced by Anthropic in November 2024, for connecting LLM applications (hosts/clients) to external capabilities exposed by **MCP servers**: tools, resources and prompts. It uses JSON-RPC 2.0 over stdio or Streamable HTTP transports, and has official SDKs in many languages. The project is transitioning from the MIT License to Apache-2.0 (new code and spec contributions are Apache-2.0; docs are CC-BY-4.0).",
  "url": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io",
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  "docs": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification",
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    "json-rpc",
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    "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol",
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