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  "description": "An excerpt of chapter 2 of AI Agents with MCP",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-08-13T17:32:20.000Z",
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  "textContent": "My newsletter, The Signal Path has a new excerpt from my upcoming book, AI Agents with MCP that discusses the lightbulb moment that led to the development of the Model Context Protocol at Anthropic.\n\n> MCP was born out of an internal project at Anthropic. David Soria Parra, a software engineer at Anthropic, was using Claude Desktop to assist him with his day-to-day work: writing developer tools. But he was frustrated by having to constantly copy and paste code between Claude Desktop and his code editor.\n> [...]\n\nRead more here, and preview the book on O'Reilly's learning platform.\n\n_via Me_",
  "title": "The Surprising Origins of the Model Context Protocol"
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