MCP Gets Ready for the Real World
Popularity of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has developers dreaming about a future where AI bots go whizzing about the Internet collecting data and completing tasks, all in automated fashion. We're not there yet. But the work to prepare for that future is well underway, judging by the enthusiasm at the MCP Developers Summit.
The grassroots conference gathered 300 developers in San Francisco. It was organized on short notice by Acorn Labs and sold out quickly, despite being held on the Friday before the U.S. Memorial Day holiday. That's how deep the interest runs.
Much of the conference focused on what's next for MCP—not only planned updates from Anthropic and the community, but also the community's wish list for enabling enterprise-grade agentic AI. Security is certainly high on that list (as we've discussed before), as is an official registry of MCP servers. But the most interesting wish-list items tie to a composable AI future, where agents and applications communicate with one another and with a multitude of servers, including third-party ones.
There's a soft-skill angle as well, because MCP's success is inspiring AI usage among non-developers. More on that momentarily.
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