GitHub and Microsoft have announced their participation in the steering committee for Anthropic's MCP (Model Connection Protocol), aimed at advancing AI data connectivity. The news, revealed during Microsoft's Build 2025 conference, follows endorsements from OpenAI and Google. MCP allows for two-way connections between AI models and various data sources, facilitating enhanced app capabilities. Microsoft plans to offer extensive support for MCP through its platforms, including Windows and Azure, contributing to the development of secure and robust integration standards for AI applications.
"Developers will be able to wrap desired features and capabilities in their apps as MCP servers and make them available [...] for Windows."
"Microsoft says that its identity and security teams collaborated with Anthropic, the MCP steering committee, and the broader MCP community to design an updated authorization spec that allows MCP-connected apps to more securely connect to MCP servers."
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