MCP servers are everywhere, but most are collecting dust. Here are the key lessons we learned to avoid that.

It took a little while to gain traction after Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol in November 2024, but the protocol has seen a recent boom in adoption, especially after the announcement that both OpenAI and Google will support the standard.

And it’s simple to understand why. The MCP proposed to solve, with an elegant solution, two of the biggest problems of AI tools: access to high-quality, specific data about your system, and integration with your existing tool stack.