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MCP client

Also written: MCP clients

The part of an AI app that holds one connection to one MCP server and speaks the protocol for it.

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A client is mostly careful bookkeeping.

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Build a client · Metadata on every request, version fallback, paging and caching. About 40 minutes.

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