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Understand the names you will hear when teams build agentic systems.
MCP Server
An MCP server exposes tools, resources or prompts to compatible AI clients.
Think of it like
Think of MCP Server 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 Server package common patterns so teams do not rebuild everything from scratch.
SRE lens
A company can expose a read-only incident database through an MCP server.
Remember thisAn MCP server exposes tools, resources or prompts to compatible AI clients.