# MCP

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard for connecting AI apps to tools. Foxora speaks it in both directions: it can be an MCP server other apps plug into, and it can add other MCP servers as connectors so their tools flow into your agents.

## What MCP is

MCP is a small, open protocol that lets an AI application talk to external servers that expose tools, resources, and prompts. Instead of every app hard-wiring every integration, a server published once works in any MCP-aware client. Foxora is MCP-native: connectors are MCP servers, and Foxora itself is an MCP server.

## The two directions

### 1 · Foxora as an MCP server

Expose a small, safe slice of Foxora’s tools to other apps. Add Foxora to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client and those apps can read files, search, and fetch the web through Foxora. Covered in Foxora as an MCP server.

### 2 · MCP servers as connectors

Go the other way: add an external MCP server so its tools become part of your agents’ toolbelt. Foxora’s whole connector catalog is built on this — and meta-connectors like Composio and Zapier let you point at any MCP URL. Covered in Adding an MCP server.

> One protocol, two rolesThe same standard powers both: when Foxora is the server, another app is the client; when a connector is the server, Foxora is the client. See Connections for how connectors become agent tools.