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January 20265 min read

Making Model Context Protocol Understandable

What MCP Zero taught me about teaching a protocol through interfaces instead of documentation alone.

InterfacesExperimentsLLM Engineering

Protocols are usually explained in abstractions, but people learn them through behavior. MCP Zero came from that mismatch.

I wanted to make the protocol legible by turning concepts into flows. Instead of reading about clients, tools, and servers in isolation, users could see how the pieces talked to each other.

The interesting part was not the visual layer itself. It was the realization that better interfaces can compress a lot of conceptual overhead.