ARTICLE · 25 JUNE 2026

MCP Is Standard. What You Get Through It Isn’t

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MCP is everywhere right now. But there’s a version of this story that stops too soon, and most of the industry isn’t telling it. There’s a lot of noise about which platform supports MCP, which AI tools connect to which systems, and who announced what this week. That’s all worth knowing. It’s just not the part that determines how useful legal AI actually is for your organisation.

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MCP is everywhere right now. But there’s a version of this story that stops too soon, and most of the industry isn’t telling it.

There’s a lot of noise about which platform supports MCP, which AI tools connect to which systems, and who announced what this week. That’s all worth knowing. It’s just not the part that determines how useful legal AI actually is for your organisation.

What MCP is and why it matters

MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is an open standard from Anthropic that lets AI tools connect to outside systems through a single governed interface. People call it the USB-C for AI: one universal connexion that replaces a tangle of custom integrations. In legal, it’s how an AI assistant reaches the documents, matters, and context that live inside the systems firms rely on most.

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