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MCP Explained: The Discovery Layer of Agentic Commerce
A plain guide to the Model Context Protocol (MCP): how agents find and call a store's tools, why it is the discovery layer, and how it fits ACP and UCP.
4 posts tagged “MCP”.
A plain guide to the Model Context Protocol (MCP): how agents find and call a store's tools, why it is the discovery layer, and how it fits ACP and UCP.
The MCP docs show a local server. Shipping a remote one is a different job. Here are the parts I learned the hard way: transport, auth, state, testing.
Building a commerce MCP server means deciding what an AI agent can and cannot do. Here are the tools I exposed, the ones I locked down, and why.
ACP, UCP, MCP, AP2, A2A, x402, MPP — the agentic commerce protocols are layers, not rivals. Here is the job each does, and how one purchase uses several.