Definition

What is an MCP Server?

A server that implements the Model Context Protocol, exposing data and tools to MCP-compatible AI clients.

An MCP server is what AI tools like Claude Desktop connect to in order to access external context. Wire automatically creates an MCP server for each context container, with custom tools tailored to your data. Your AI tools can browse, search, and query your context without any manual configuration.

Related concepts

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

An open protocol that standardizes how AI applications provide context and tools to language models.

Context Container

A portable, shareable unit of organized context (documents, data, and structured information) made accessible to AI agents through MCP tools.

Further reading

How to Get an MCP Server Without Writing Code

All terms

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AI Agent Context as a Service Context Container Structured Context Context Engineering Context Portability Context Rot Context Window MCP (Model Context Protocol) MCP Server RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Semantic Search Wire

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