Alternatives to Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Model Context Protocol (MCP) and 1 alternative tool evaluated on the Tekai technology radar.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Subject

An open standard by Anthropic that defines how AI assistants connect to external tools, data sources, and services via a JSON-RPC protocol.

open-source MIT

trial

An open standard for packaging reusable procedural knowledge as markdown files that AI coding agents can discover, load, and use across 30+ tools.

Tool	Radar	Type	License
Model Context Protocol (MCP)	trial	open-source	MIT
Agent Skills Specification	adopt	open-source	Apache-2.0