Apa iku MCP (Model Context Protocol), lan kepriye dheweke nyambung AI menyang alat-alat kayata Gmail, Drive, utawa Jira?

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**MCP (Model Context Protocol)** minangka standar terbuka, digawé dening Anthropic, kang ngidini aplikasi AI nyambung menyang alat lan data bab njaba liwat siji antarmuka seragam — tinimbang nulis integrasi khusus kanggo saben aplikasi. Pikire minangka adapter universal antarane model lan jagad njaba.

## Klien lan pelayanan

```text
MCP SERVER → exposes capabilities to the model:
  - TOOLS     → actions the model can call (send_email, create_issue, search_files)
  - RESOURCES → data the model can read (a file, a Drive doc, a DB row)
  - PROMPTS   → reusable prompt templates the server offers
MCP CLIENT → the AI app (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, an IDE) that connects to servers
TRANSPORT  → stdio (local process) or HTTP (remote), speaking JSON-RPC both ways
```

Kakuwat utama: saben penyedia alat nulis **siji** pelayanan MCP, lan **sembarang** klien sing kompatibel karo MCP bisa nggunakaké. Sampeyan nambah pelayanan Gmail, pelayanan Drive, pelayanan Jira — lan model bisa njaluk kabeh alatmu tanpa sampeyan nyambung integrasi khusus saben aplikasi.

## Konfigurasi cilik lan alur

```jsonc
// The client config registers servers; the model then sees their tools
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gmail": { "command": "npx", "args": ["@org/mcp-gmail"] },   // local, stdio
    "jira":  { "url": "https://mcp.acme.com/jira" }              // remote, HTTP
  }
}
```

```text
FLOW:
1. Client starts/connects to each server, asks "what tools do you have?"
2. Server replies with tool schemas (name, description, params) via JSON-RPC
3. User: "file a Jira bug for the login crash" → model picks the jira create_issue tool
4. Client calls the tool on the server → server hits the Jira API → returns the result
5. Model uses the result in its answer
```

Amarga penemuan lan panggilan diseragamkan liwat JSON-RPC, model nguleti alat saben pelayanan nalika nyambung — ora ana kode per-alat ing aplikasi dhéwé.

## Mengapa iku penting

Satapak MCP, saben integrasi AI-menyang-alat minangka tipat: kode khusus, otentikasi khusus, pemeliharaan khusus, diulang kanggo saben aplikasi lan saben produk AI. MCP ngganti N×M ledakan kasebut karo siji protokol — penulis alat ngirimake pelayanan tunggal, lan saben klien sing kompatibel entuk integrasi gratis. Standardisasi kasebut kang nggawé praktis menehi asisten jangkauan nyata menyang Gmail, Drive, Jira, lan sistem internal sampeyan tanpa ngulang pipa kabeh wektu.