It seems the benefit of MCP is for Anthropic to enlist the community in building integrations for Claude desktop, no?
And if other vendors sign on to support MCP, then it becomes a self reinforcing cycle of adoption.
And if other vendors sign on to support MCP, then it becomes a self reinforcing cycle of adoption.
Coupled with the fact that any LLM trained for tool use can utilize the protocol, it doesn't feel like much of a moat that uniquely positions Claude Desktop in a meaningful way.
This is exactly what's happening now. A good portion of applications, frameworks and actors are starting to support it.
I've been reluctant on adopting MCP in applications until there was enough adoption.
However, depending on your use case it may also be too complex for your use case.