MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Definition

Model Context Protocol (MCP) was introduced by Anthropic in 2024 as an open protocol that unifies the integration between LLM clients and external servers (tools, file systems, databases, APIs). MCP servers expose resources, tools, and prompts over a standardized JSON-RPC interface. This makes agent workflows reusable and removes the need for bespoke glue code.

How Swiss Knowledge Hub uses this term

Swiss Knowledge Hub supports MCP through a per-tenant configuration (the MCPServer model) so that customers can plug in their own tools and data sources. Tool calls are recorded in the audit log.

Related terms

• LLM (Large Language Model)
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• Workspace / tenant

Sources

1. Model Context Protocol — Spezifikation — https://modelcontextprotocol.io/