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What Is an MCP Server? A Production Guide for Agentic AI

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An MCP server is a standard way to give an AI application access to outside systems. It exposes tools, data and context that the application can discover and use through the Model Context Protocol. That is the textbook answer, and it is the easy half. Here is the half the textbook leaves out. A pro…

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  1. 2026-09-20 13:42 · DEV Community — AI
    What Is an MCP Server? A Production Guide for Agentic AI

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