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Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, April 8, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.
Anthropic created and open-sourced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a technical standard that gives AI models a consistent way to connect to external tools, databases, and applications — similar to how USB-C gives devices a universal port for charging and data transfer. MCP has been adopted by major technology companies including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, and reaches over 100 million monthly downloads.
Details
MCP launched in November 2024, designed by Anthropic engineers David Soria Parra and Justin Spahr-Summers. It uses a structured communication format (JSON-RPC 2.0) to standardize connections between AI models and external systems. Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation in December 2025, signaling its intent for MCP to become a vendor-neutral, industry-wide standard. Anthropic operates a marketplace of MCP connectors for services including Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Notion, Salesforce, and multiple financial data providers. Early adopters included developer tools such as Cursor, Replit, and Sourcegraph. Security researchers raised concerns in early implementations about prompt injection vulnerabilities in MCP server setups.
Products affected
Claude APIClaude CodeClaude CoworkClaude for ExcelClaude Desktop
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Other practices by Anthropic
OtherAnthropic has partnered with scientific and government institutions to deploy Claude in research settings. In January 2026, Claude helped guide NASA's Perseverance rover to travel 400 meters across Mars — the first time an AI assistant helped navigate a spacecraft on another planet. Partnerships with major biomedical research institutions are also underway to use Claude in laboratory and computational research.OtherAnthropic developed a specialized AI model called Claude Mythos to help find dangerous security flaws in software before malicious actors do. Because the model is powerful enough to create its own exploits, it is not available to the public — access is restricted to approximately 40 vetted organizations, including major technology and financial companies, for defensive use only.OtherAnthropic operates a formal safety framework called the Responsible Scaling Policy that sets rules for when and how it can train and release more powerful AI models. Under this policy, each new Claude model is assigned a safety level, and passing specific safety tests is required before the model can be deployed. The framework is now in its third version and has been updated as Claude's capabilities have grown.
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