Rafal Wilinski builds a visual explainer of MCP wire messages

AIRafal Wilinski has built mcp-explained.com, a visual explainer that walks through every message MCP sends on the wire, step by step. He says MCP covers more than tools, including resources, OAuth, sampling, elicitation, and tasks.

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most of us (definitely me) thought MCP was just about tools

working with it for the past +1 year taught me there’s so much more: resources, OAuth, sampling, elicitation, tasks, etc

so i built a visual explainer. Every message on the wire, step by step:

https://mcp-explained.com

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Rafal Wilinski · x.comPublished Nov 5, 7:54 AM ET · added here 9:40 AM ET

Original title: most of us (definitely me) thought MCP was just about tools

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MCP & tool use Tutorials & how-to