"Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to grow as a web development tool. We're using the technology to write and debug code, perform complex tasks, and interact with users. We've discussed a lot of these use cases here at Speckyboy. However, we haven't talked about the behind-the-scenes tool that powers AI integrations. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open-source protocol that connects AI models to external applications or data sources."
"In theory, MCP can sit between AI and any tool you can imagine. One real-world example: connecting Microsoft's Copilot with your Excel spreadsheet. In this scenario, you can ask Copilot to analyze your data and produce a report. The same principles apply to your WordPress website. Plugin developers can utilize this technology to incorporate AI-powered features. From there, you might use that connection to generate blog post excerpts or identify a set of related products on your WooCommerce shop."
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open-source protocol that connects AI models to external applications and data sources, acting as an intermediary between tools and models. MCP can sit between any AI and any tool, enabling scenarios like connecting Microsoft's Copilot to an Excel spreadsheet to analyze data and produce reports. SDKs exist in multiple programming languages to build MCP servers and clients. Plugin developers can use MCP to incorporate AI-powered features into WordPress sites, such as generating blog post excerpts or identifying related WooCommerce products. MCP reduces the need to build integrations from scratch and expands possible AI-enabled workflows.
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