MCP

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Definition

Abbreviation for model-context-protocol — open standard for connecting AI models to external tools and data sources.

2026-08-04: kiro-crew ships with MCP integrations alongside ACP orchestration (2026-08-04-aws-kiro-crew-open-source-orchestrator)
2026-07-31: supabase-evals exercises agents via real MCP server + CLI against containerized stacks (2026-08-01-supabase-evals-github)
2026-07-01: Nature Machine Intelligence — agentic X-ray scientist controls ssrl beamline motors/detector via MCP; virtual-to-real transfer (2026-07-01-nature-agentic-xray-scientist)
2026-07-01: Scientific instrumentation pattern — MCP server wraps Hardware API, not direct hardware control (2026-07-01-dev-community-mcp-scientific-instruments)
2026-06-26: amazon-q-developer CVE-2026-12957 — auto-loaded .amazonq/mcp.json without consent; AWS credential theft via environment inheritance (2026-06-26-amazon-q-developer-cve-2026-12957-mcp)
2026-06-23: preflight GA — MCP server for AI coding observability (new-relic)
2026-06-24: runlayer raises $30M to build enterprise MCP governance layer — control plane, shadow AI detection, audit trails (2026-06-24-runlayer-30m-agent-governance-funding)
Strategic bet: MCP becomes dominant enterprise AI integration framework
Security concerns: prompt injection, tool poisoning, unmanaged MCP servers, workspace config auto-execution (shadow-ai)