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Understand the names you will hear when teams build agentic systems.
MCP Client
An MCP client is the component inside the host that connects to an MCP server and uses its advertised capabilities.
Think of it like
Think of MCP Client as infrastructure glue: it does not replace the model, but helps applications connect pieces in a repeatable way.
Real life
Software frameworks such as MCP Client package common patterns so teams do not rebuild everything from scratch.
SRE lens
One client connection can represent access to a GitHub MCP server.
Remember thisAn MCP client is the component inside the host that connects to an MCP server and uses its advertised capabilities.