[danielbln]

MCP is a handy way to announce tools to the LLM it can use to interface with a service, usually remote. I use local mcp servers to pull on (authed) slack, notion, grafana and a few more into an agent like Cline. I don't think the HN post frequency is some bot thing, just seems to be something that's sticking with people as more and more mcp servers pop up. Makes wiring stuff together for agents to use easy to reason about.

[_pdp_]

I've been aware of MCP for a long time but recently I started hearing about it a lot more, even from customers - it is clearly a hype.

[mellosouls]

A long time - are you confusing it with something else? It was only published 3 months ago, which would be why it has recently become a thing.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol

[fragmede]

How are you defining hype, here?

[mirekrusin]

It's like saying that package manager for language X is a hype.