My newsletter, The Signal Path has a new excerpt from my upcoming book, AI Agents with MCP that discusses the lightbulb moment that led to the development of the Model Context Protocol at Anthropic.

MCP was born out of an internal project at Anthropic. David Soria Parra, a software engineer at Anthropic, was using Claude Desktop to assist him with his day-to-day work: writing developer tools. But he was frustrated by having to constantly copy and paste code between Claude Desktop and his code editor. […]

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