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The Creators of Model Context Protocol

Published 11 months, 4 weeks ago

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We are happy to announce that there will be a dedicated MCP track at the 2025 AI Engineer World's Fair, taking place Jun 3rd to 5th in San Francisco, where the MCP core team and major contributors and builders will be meeting. Join us and apply to speak or sponsor!

When we first wrote Why MCP Won, we had no idea how quickly it was about to win.

In the past 4 weeks, OpenAI and now Google have now announced the MCP support, effectively confirming our prediction that MCP was the presumptive winner of the agent standard wars. MCP has now overtaken OpenAPI, the incumbent option and most direct alternative, in GitHub stars (3 months ahead of conservative trendline):

We have explored the state of MCP at AIE (now the first ever >100k views workshop):

And since then, we’ve added a 7th reason why MCP won - this team acts very quickly on feedback, with the 2025-03-26 spec update adding support for stateless/resumable/streamable HTTP transports, and comprehensive authz capabilities based on OAuth 2.1.

This bodes very well for the future of the community and project.

For protocol and history nerds, we also asked David and Justin to tell the origin story of MCP, which we leave to the reader to enjoy (you can also skim the transcripts, or, the changelogs of a certain favored IDE). It’s incredible the impact that individual engineers solving their own problems can have on an entire industry.

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Timestamps

* 00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome

* 00:37 What is MCP?

* 02:00 The Origin Story of MCP

* 05:18 Development Challenges and Solutions