From API to AI: Build your own MCP Servers

Large language models (LLM) are clever, but without a way to use real systems, they are limited in what they can do. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that gives any AI client a single contract to discover and invoke your APIs, enabling AI clients to both collect information on their own and perform actions within your systems.

An MCP server transforms common integration tasks into AI-accessible tools by exposing them through a simple, standardized interface. It can be run locally or hosted remotely, such as in Azure. MCP makes integrations instantly available to a variety of AI tools, allowing seamless interaction between AI clients and your existing APIs, workflows, or services without changing underlying code.