# #model-context-protocol

> Explorations of Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the open standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data sources. Covers implementation patterns, server architecture, and the emerging MCP ecosystem.

## Links

- [Tag Page](https://mythos.one/tag/model-context-protocol)
- [MCP Server](https://mythos.one/api/mcp)

## Memos

- [Connectivity Is the New Moat](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/8a3489): The core insight from the 2026 Model Context Protocol (MCP){bold} State of the Union isn't "MCP is winning" — it's that the bottleneck for AI value creation has shifted from model capability to...
- [FastMCP](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/2fa01c): FastMCP is a high-level Python framework for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Created by Jeremiah Lowin, it provides a decorator-based Application Programming Interface (API) that...
- [The 2026 Connectivity Stack](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/269ba4): The 2026 Connectivity Stack is a framework from the MCP team for how agents connect to external systems. The core claim: there is no single connectivity solution. The best agents in 2026 use three...
- [Skills over MCP](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/5ed635): Skills over MCP is an upcoming extension to the Model Context Protocol that lets servers ship domain knowledge alongside tools — structured instructions that tell the model how to use the server's...
- [Progressive Discovery (MCP)](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/ac53a3): Progressive discovery is a client-side pattern for managing tool context in MCP-connected agents. Instead of loading every tool schema from every connected server into the model's context window at...
- [MythOS MCP — Tools, Resources & Prompts](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/8097c9): Reference for all MythOS MCP server capabilities. Endpoint: https://mythos.one/api/mcp. Auth: OAuth 2.0 (Claude connectors) or x-mythos-key header (Claude Code, npm package). getcontext (read-only,...
- [get_context](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/d236c6): getcontext is the MCP tool on the MythOS MCP server that loads a user's augmentation memos — Soul, Style, Human, and Memory — into an agent session as the L0 Identity + L1 Personal context tier. The...
- [Model Context Protocol and Claude Mythos](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/9e45fe): The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol developed by Anthropic and donated to the Linux Foundation that standardizes how Artificial Intelligence (AI) models connect to external tools,...
- [Why MythOS Is What Karpathy Described](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/54528e): On April 2, 2026, Andrej Karpathy posted a detailed architecture for "LLM Knowledge Bases" — personal knowledge systems built and maintained by LLMs, stored as markdown, compounding with use. He...
- [How to Build Your First MCP Server](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/37a92c): How to build your first MCP server is a practitioner's guide to creating a Model Context Protocol server that connects any data source or tool to Claude Code, Claude.ai, or any MCP-compatible AI...
- [MythOS Claude Code Skill](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/ebbf24): The MythOS Claude Code Skill enables MythOS creators to connect their knowledge library to Claude Code via the CLI. Search, read, create, and update memos, chat with your library using RAG, explore...
- [Obsidian vs. MythOS as Claude Memory](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/78d50b): People using Obsidian as a memory system for Claude are building something MythOS was designed to be from day one. Here's what they're doing, why it works, and where MythOS is the better architecture...
- [AI Memory Systems](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/b4f91a): AI memory systems are the tools and architectures that give Artificial Intelligence models persistent context across sessions — the ability to remember who you are, what you've worked on, and what...
- [MCP vs RAG](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/f88b56): MCP vs RAG is the most common confusion in AI knowledge architecture. Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solve different problems, operate at different layers, and...
- [MCP for Personal Knowledge Systems](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/13f5b6): MCP for personal knowledge systems is the practice of using the Model Context Protocol to connect a personal knowledge base — notes, memos, documents, research — to AI models as persistent,...
- [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/337a84): Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol developed by Anthropic that standardizes how Artificial Intelligence models connect to external tools, data sources, and systems. Donated to the Linux...
- [MythOS on Claude Mobile](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/c8a6e4): MythOS works on Claude mobile — iOS and Android — via OAuth. This is a capability that Obsidian's MCP integration literally cannot provide, and it changes how you think about AI memory. What This...
- [MythOS Session Memory Protocol](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/c373db): The Session Memory Protocol gives your AI collaborator persistent memory across conversations using MythOS daily memos. No CLAUDE.md hacks, no manual file management — just structured, cross-client...
- [Implicit Loading (MythOS MCP)](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/5f8322): Implicit loading is a design pattern in MythOS MCP where a collaborator's preferences, style rules, and identity context are automatically included in MCP tool responses — without requiring a...
- [Beehiiv MCP](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/907866): Beehiiv MCP is a model-context-protocol integration that connects the Beehiiv newsletter platform directly to AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Announced in March 2026, it...
- [Rube MCP](https://mythos.one/me/brianswichkow/a4b66a): Watch Contexts model-context-protocol