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David Soria Parra, co-creator of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) at Anthropic, discusses the origins of MCP — born from frustration with copy-pasting data in and out of AI prompts — and its evolution into an open protocol standard. He explains the three core primitives (tools, resources, prompts), challenges around OAuth-based authentication for remote servers, security concerns like prompt injection and supply chain attacks, and the decision to donate MCP to the Linux Foundation to ensure it remains permanently open. Future roadmap includes improved transport for horizontal scaling, better discoverability via well-known URLs, an official extension mechanism for domain-specific needs (healthcare, finance), and interactive MCP apps with renderable UI components.

No need for Ctrl+C when you have MCP