Clarifies what MCPThe Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.Full definition → actually provides to an LLMA large language model — the neural network behind tools like Claude and ChatGPT, trained on huge amounts of text to predict what comes next.Full definition → application (tools and raw context windowThe maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.Full definition →) and how it differs from calling an API directly, plus where the protocol is going.
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MCP — The Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.
LLM — A large language model — the neural network behind tools like Claude and ChatGPT, trained on huge amounts of text to predict what comes next.
context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
