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Understand the names you will hear when teams build agentic systems.
stdio Transport
stdio transport communicates through a process’s standard input and output and is common for local MCP servers.
Think of it like
Think of stdio Transport as infrastructure glue: it does not replace the model, but helps applications connect pieces in a repeatable way.
Real life
Software frameworks such as stdio Transport package common patterns so teams do not rebuild everything from scratch.
SRE lens
A desktop host can launch a local server process and talk over stdio.
Remember thisstdio transport communicates through a process’s standard input and output and is common for local MCP servers.