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Yes, MCP is an API. Previously, it was an API with a weird stateful standard; now it is essentially a bog-standard stateless JSON-RPC API with conventions for
by lexandstuff 1mo ago
Yes, MCP is an API.
Previously, it was an API with a weird stateful standard; now it is essentially a bog-standard stateless JSON-RPC API with conventions for tool discovery, long-running tasks and multi-round-trip requests
If you wrote your own JSON-RPC API for an LLM, you would probably eventually end up with something that looks very much like the standard they're describing.
- Foobar8568 1mo agoAhh so it's the 2025 name for CORBA? just kidding, I meant SOA /s But your answer is the first one that seems to be relevant, so thank you.