An MCP Server is a simple program that lets AI models securely access data and tools using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). FastMCP is a Python framework that helps you build MCP servers and clients.

AI chatbots are great at answering questions or analyzing text, but they're usually limited to the tools that are built in. MCP changes that by giving chatbots a standard way to connect to external ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now includes a Tool Catalog that can scaffold a Python or TypeScript MCP server with the core transport and registration plumbing already set up. In ...

As more organizations configure MCP servers to support agent-to-agent communication, upfront strategy, nonfunctional requirements, and security non-negotiables will guide safer deployments. One of the ...

Microsoft is previewing Foundry MCP Server, a fully cloud-hosted implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Microsoft Foundry. MCP is a standard for letting AI agents connect to apps, data ...

Despite my general distaste for shoehorned AI features that nobody wants, I must admit that large language models have boosted my productivity quite a bit. And I don’t just mean cloud-based LLMs, ...