The tool is called the Model Context Protocol , which Anthropic said on Monday it was making open source and free to use for any developer. This protocol will create an information channel between a data source, even app data, and an AI assistant. This is designed for use by AI agents like Anthropicâs Claude desktop app . Anthropic said this connection is âsecure,â sinceâinstead of exposing their appâs dataâthird party developers can instead build a âMCP client,â AKA a separate
