alt Hacker NewsTool-calling is pretty huge, but MCP (a standard for calling a tool over HTTP) is way over-hyped, and neither here nor there really.
Tool-calling is pretty huge, but MCP (a standard for calling a tool over HTTP) is way over-hyped, and neither here nor there really.
MCP means you can get arbitrary tool calling from existing shrink-wrapped agents, like Claude Code, without writing your own agent. It's a big deal.