Agents hold immense power, but their true potential shines when they connect to the real world, fetching data, triggering actions, or leveraging external tools. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) offers a standardized way for AI agents to do this. MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. Just as USB-C provides a standardized way to connect your devices to various peripherals and accessories, MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to different data sources and tools. – official MCP website Heroku Managed Inference and Agents dramatically simplifies hosting these MCP servers and making them available, not only to itself, but also to external agents like Claude,   Cursor , or Agentforce . These new capabilities accelerate industry standardization towards agent interoperability by reducing the infrastructure, security, and discovery challenges in building and running MCP servers.…