Is the MCP protocol becoming the common foundation of smart, decentralised search?
Summary
The article explains the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an open, decentralised protocol that lets AI assistants fetch data directly from publishers, enabling up-to-date, verifiable sources with licensing information. It outlines MCP’s architecture, adoption by major AI tools, and ongoing work around citation, trust, and measurement, with a practical Contexte Tech example and a call for publishers to host their own MCP servers.