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title: '**MCP server**'
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  An **MCP server** is a server built on the **Model Context Protocol (MCP)**
  that turns a website or web service into a set of tools an AI can use
  _natively_ to get work done. In this channel's material, MCP servers are
  presented as the bridge that lets AI hook into an internet whose architecture
  was built for a **pre-AI world**, and as a technology that is still hard to
  scale and possibly insecure. [^ea9761fa-0184-555e-be30-4928a6682680@11]
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# \*\*MCP server\*\*

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## Definition

An **MCP server** is a server built on the **Model Context Protocol (MCP)** that turns a website or web service into a set of tools an AI can use _natively_ to get work done. In this channel's material, MCP servers are presented as the bridge that lets AI hook into an internet whose architecture was built for a **pre-AI world**, and as a technology that is still hard to scale and possibly insecure. [^ea9761fa-0184-555e-be30-4928a6682680@11] [^ea9761fa-0184-555e-be30-4928a6682680@46]

In the captured material, an **MCP server** is the concrete thing you build to put the Model Context Protocol into practice: it takes a website or web service and exposes it as a set of tools that an AI can use *natively* to get work done. [^ea9761fa-0184-555e-be30-4928a6682680@11] The framing is that the internet's architecture was built for a **pre-AI world**, and MCP — realized through MCP servers — is the bridge that lets AI hook into it. [^ea9761fa-0184-555e-be30-4928a6682680@0] The conversation features **Stainless**, the API company behind the APIs and SDKs for major AI companies like **OpenAI** and **Anthropic**, which is now starting to build MCP servers as well. [^ea9761fa-0184-555e-be30-4928a6682680@22] [^ea9761fa-0184-555e-be30-4928a6682680@34] The material does not treat MCP servers as a solved technology. The host and Alex Rattray explicitly explore: > “So, Alex and I get into the nitty-gritty of what the future of MCP looks like, how to design good MCPs, why MCPs are actually really hard to scale and possibly insecure, and we try to figure out together what a better model for allowing AIs to use the internet might look like.”   - An **MCP server** turns a website or web service into a set of tools an AI can use natively. [^ea9761fa-0184-555e-be30-4928a6682680@11] - They are the practical building block of the MCP bridge between the pre-AI internet and AI agents. [^ea9761fa-0184-555e-be30-4928a6682680@0] - Stainless — the API company for OpenAI and Anthropic — is now building MCP servers. [^ea9761fa-0184-555e-be30-4928a6682680@22] [^ea9761fa-0184-555e-be30-4928a6682680@34] - Scaling MCPs is described as *hard and possibly insecure*, and a better model remains an open question. [^ea9761fa-0184-555e-be30-4928a6682680@46]