Why the Open Standard Matters
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Why the Open Standard Matters
Anthropic could have built proprietary integrations. They didn’t. They published MCP as an open spec and other AI companies adopted it — which means servers built for Claude can often work with other AI tools, and servers built for other tools can work with Claude.
This matters because it changes the economics. If there’s a useful MCP server in the ecosystem, you can just install it. You don’t need Anthropic to strike a partnership with the service provider. The ecosystem grows independent of any single company’s roadmap.
It also means you can build servers. If your company has an internal system that isn’t covered by existing servers, you can write one. The protocol is documented, the tooling exists, and Module 4 walks through the whole process.