Model Context Protocol MCP for technical writers

It’s November 2025 and I just came back from this year’s tcworld conference. Pretty much a year ago in November 2024 Anthropic introduced an open-source standard, the Model Context Protocol MCP. It allows connecting apps and servers to generative AIgenerative AI such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Technology moves fast these days; generative AI moves lightning fast. And a year was enough for developers in all domains to develop thousands of MCP applications. When I first heard about MCP servers earlier this year, I immediately had to try some of Anthropic’s reference implementations. Seeing the LLM doing actual work on my laptop was eye opening.