If you’ve ever built AI-driven applications, you know how tedious integrating with various tools and data sources can be. In her new video, Shannon McFarland from Cisco DevNet unpacks Model Context Protocol (MCP), a lightweight, standardized way to have your AI agents talk to file systems, databases, web services and more — all without writing piles of boilerplate code. What you’ll learn: Client–Server Basics: How MCP pairs clients and servers for local & remote workflows JSON-RPC & Transports: