- What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
- MCP is an open standard—introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 and now governed vendor-neutrally under the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation—that gives AI models one universal way to connect to external tools, data, and services. Often described as the USB-C port for AI, it has been adopted by OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and AWS, with thousands of public MCP servers in the ecosystem.
- What are MCP tools?
- Tools are one of MCP's core primitives: typed, executable functions a model can invoke during a task—searching a knowledge base, querying a database, filing a ticket, triggering a workflow. Alongside resources (context data) and prompts (reusable templates), tools are how agents act on real systems—which makes them the natural enforcement point for governance, security, and observability.
- How does VKX use MCP?
- The VKX platform is MCP-native: it exposes governed vector knowledge as MCP tools any compatible agent can call, and VKX forward-deployed engineers wrap your internal systems as additional MCP tools inside your environment—with access policies, human-approval lanes, and full audit trails on every tool call. Contact info@reddy.sh to scope an MCP integration.