Imagine you've trained or fine‑tuned a chatbot or an LLM, and it can chat comfortably without any serious hiccups. You feed it a prompt and it responds. However, it's stuck in a bubble: It only knows what you told it or what was baked into its training data. This is where the problem lies and where the Model Context Protocol (MCP) changes everything. It started as a concept in late November 2024. MCP is an open‑source standard developed by Anthropic to let AI models "plug in" to the real ...