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Understand the names you will hear when teams build agentic systems.
MCP Host
An MCP host is the AI application that manages one or more MCP clients and presents capabilities to the model or user.
Think of it like
Think of MCP Host 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 Host package common patterns so teams do not rebuild everything from scratch.
SRE lens
A desktop AI app can be the host that connects to several tool servers.
Remember thisAn MCP host is the AI application that manages one or more MCP clients and presents capabilities to the model or user.