Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, has launched a new open-source tool that lets you link a large language model to a range of tools including giving it access to your files.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a new universal protocol AI systems can use to interact with data from a range of different platforms. In addition to looking at your files, it can access GitHub, manage channels in Slack and search the web using your choice of search engine. This is different to Claude with Computer Use.
