{"id":2316,"date":"2025-04-28T13:28:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2025-04-28T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T07:19:31","slug":"model-context-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/?p=2316","title":{"rendered":"Model Context Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard developed by Anthropic that enables AI models to use tools by defining a structured format for tool descriptions, calls, and responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It defines a&nbsp;<strong>standardized way for LLMs to discover, call, and use tools<\/strong>, often hosted on local or remote servers, via HTTP + JSON RPC2.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p id=\"0e9f\"><strong>Function calling<\/strong>&nbsp;is like giving LLM a calculator app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"703b\"><strong>MCP<\/strong>&nbsp;is like giving LLM an App Store \u2014 which can browse, discover, and use any available tool on its own.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"6817\">When to use Function Calling vs Model Context Protocol (MCP) ?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"22c8\"><strong>Function Calling<\/strong>&nbsp;to be used when:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We require simple tools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We control the whole application stack<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We\u2019re using cloud models like ChatGPT or Gemini<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We want&nbsp;<strong>tight integration<\/strong>&nbsp;in our application logic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"b1ee\"><strong>MCP&nbsp;<\/strong>to be used when:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We\u2019re building&nbsp;<strong>agentic systems<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We want tools to be&nbsp;<strong>modular, reusable, discoverable<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We want&nbsp;<strong>local LLMs<\/strong>&nbsp;(like Ollama, Gemma, Mistral) to use external data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We want scaling to&nbsp;<strong>multiple tools or toolchains<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard developed by Anthropic that enables AI models to use tools by defining a structured format for tool descriptions, calls, and responses. It defines a&nbsp;standardized way for LLMs to discover, call, and use tools, often hosted on local or remote servers, via HTTP + JSON RPC2.0. Function calling&nbsp;is like giving LLM a calculator app. MCP&nbsp;is like giving LLM an App Store \u2014 which can browse, discover, and use any available tool on its&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/?p=2316\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[213,214],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","tag-mcp","tag-model-context-protocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skanto.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}