MCP
MCP is a standard way for AI systems to connect to tools and structured context.
Plain English
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It gives AI systems a standard way to talk to tools, fetch context, and expose actions without hard-coding every integration separately.
Why it matters here
If you want AI to interact safely with handbooks, machine data, ERP details, or training utilities, protocol-level tool access is cleaner than copying everything into the prompt.
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Analogy
Standard tool ports for AI systems.
Like using a common machine interface so one system can plug into different controls and still know how to ask for the right data.
Examples
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