GitHub shares a GitHub Universe 2025 highlight explaining the Model Context Protocol (MCP), how AI agents can use it to access private or newly published data, and why GitHub collaborated with Anthropic and rewrote the official MCP server from TypeScript to Go.

What is MCP and how does it work with AI?

This is a highlight from GitHub Universe 2025 explaining the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it helps AI agents interact with the outside world by enabling access to private or recently published data.

Key points covered

• What MCP is and the role it plays in connecting models/agents to external data.
• Why MCP matters for scenarios where data is:
  • Private
  • Newly published (and therefore not in a model’s training data)
• GitHub + Anthropic collaboration:
  • GitHub collaborated with Anthropic to take ownership of the official MCP server.
• Rewrite of the MCP server:
  • The team decided to rewrite the open-source project from TypeScript to Go.

Links

• Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwqUp4Dc1mQ

Source

• Author: GitHub
• Tags (original): AI, GitHub, MCP