Overview
Anthropic’s API and Model Context Protocol providing infrastructure for building agents with Claude and standardizing tool integrations.
Details
The Anthropic API provides programmatic access to Claude models, while Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard introduced by Anthropic for connecting AI agents to tools, data sources, and integrations. MCP has been adopted by OpenAI, Google, and the broader AI ecosystem as a common protocol. MCP represents Anthropic’s strategic contribution to standardizing agent infrastructure.