What I'm Learning

A short course from the Anthropic team on the Model Context Protocol. The right place to start if you want the spec from the source rather than from secondary explainers. These are my notes from working through it — what MCP actually is, how the wire protocol is shaped, what the primitives mean in practice, and where the protocol is heading.

Agent interoperability is the latest buzz in town. First, it was MCP (Model Context Protocol) from Anthropic, and now, with the latest announcement (April 9) of Google's A2A (Agent2Agent) protocol, it seems there's a growing push toward establishing interoperability standards. But why?