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Introduction to MCP: What You Need to Know

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Tony Lewis
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For the first month or two of building agents on Claude, I spent most of my debugging time staring at hallucinated API endpoints. The model would confidently POST to URLs that didn't exist, invent function names, and produce JSON that wouldn't parse. Switching the integration over to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) didn't fix everything, but it removed the entire class of "the model made up an endpoint" failures, which were the bulk of what we were chasing.

The rest of this post is the explanation I wish I'd had on day one.

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A practical introduction to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with real examples, common pitfalls, and why it matters for building AI agents that actually work.