Why We Bet on MCP (And What We're Still Figuring Out)

When we started building Data Workers, we had to make a foundational decision: how do our AI agents connect to the dozens of tools in a modern data stack? We could build custom integrations for each tool. We could use existing orchestration frameworks. Or we could bet on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). We bet on MCP. Here is why, and what we are still figuring out. What MCP Actually Is MCP is an open protocol, originally developed by Anthropic, that standardizes how AI models interact with external tools and data sources.