Model context protocol (MCP)

Mcp Ai Integration Grafana

Model context protocol is a standard shipped by antropicAI for communication between AI capable application (claude-desktop, VScode ecc..) and external tools, the concept is similar to LSP where a sort of proxy component is deployed between the AI application and the external tool:

flowchart LR subgraph AI_applications direction TB A[claude-desktop] B[vscode] end subgraph external_tools direction TB D[grafana] E[github] F[gitlab] G[filesystem] H[database] end C{{MCP server}} AI_applications --JSON RPC--> C -- http/api --> external_tools

The MCP server expose an endpoint that talks JSON-RPC with a set of defined methods:

tools
resources
prompts

For each of this the following submethods are defined

list
get

🔷 Note

For tools and prompts call is also implemented

References

mcp architecture