The Model Context Protocol standardises how a model discovers and calls external tools, files, and services, replacing one-off integrations with a shared plug format. It makes agent tool use portable across models and apps.

Book cover: AI for Video, Volume 7 of the Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook

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AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Real-Time Pipelines and Agents to Serving, Cost, Compliance, and Verticals

MCP makes agent tool use portable across models, and the work moves to permissions, latency and failure handling. This volume covers MCP as part of agent engineering: tool use, memory and planning primitives, frameworks, serving infrastructure, and the cost of agents in production. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.

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