# Model Context Protocol (MCP)

URL: https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/model-context-protocol

> An open protocol that lets an AI agent discover and call tools exposed by an external server over a standard interface.

An open protocol that lets an AI agent discover and call tools exposed by an external server over a standard interface.

Model Context Protocol, MCP, defines how an agent discovers what tools a server offers and calls them, over a standard interface rather than a bespoke integration written for every tool. A server advertises its tools with a name, a description and an input schema; an agent asks what is available, then calls whichever tool the task requires, using the schema to know what to send.

An enterprise that already runs internal tool servers, a case lookup service, an internal search index, can expose them to an agent once, over MCP, instead of writing a custom connector for every agent that needs them, and can control exactly which tools are visible to which agent.

An internal MCP server exposing a case lookup tool is connected once and then reused by any agent in the organization that needs to look up a case.

**In Dynamiq**, an MCP Server tool connects an agent to a remote MCP server over the current standard transport or the legacy one, discovers its tools at run time, and expands each into a typed agent tool automatically. Include and exclude lists control exactly which tools an agent can see, alongside a built-in catalog of 2,100+ app integrations.

## See it in Dynamiq

-   [Integrations](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/product/integrations)
-   [Agent Builder](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/product/agents)

## Related terms

-   [Tool calling](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/tool-calling)
-   [AI agent](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/ai-agent)
-   [Agent orchestration](https://www.getdynamiq.ai/glossary/agent-orchestration)

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