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What is an MCP?
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How AI plugs into your other tools.
MCP is a standard way for an AI to safely use your other tools — your calendar, your files, your apps. If an API is how two apps talk, an MCP is the universal plug that lets an AI reach out and actually use them. You almost never need to think about this word as a beginner — it just means “the AI can connect to your stuff.”
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