intermediateModel Context Protocol — Architecture
What are the three main things an MCP server can expose to a client?
Tools (callable functions the model can invoke), Resources (readable data/context the client can pull in, like files or API responses), and Prompts (reusable prompt templates the server provides) — together these let a server expose a full slice of capability, not just a single function call.
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