Explained: Model Context Protocol (MCP)

You open your editor and ask the AI assistant why last night's build failed. A few seconds later it has pulled the CI logs, found the failing test, opened the commit that broke it, and checked whether anyone already filed a ticket. You never pasted a single log line into the chat. Not long ago, that kind of reach had to be built by hand. Someone wrote code that taught this particular assistant to talk to this particular CI system, then did it… Read More