MCP

A commonly conflated concept: Function Calling is a capability of the model itself, MCP is the protocol connecting model and tools. Clarifies their real differences in tool discovery, security boundary, and portability, and how Spring AI unifies the two.

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• #Function Calling
• #Spring AI

The core of MCP is standardizing your capabilities into tools AI can understand. This walks the full flow — from writing your first tool, to deploying it as a network service that other people and other AIs can call.

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• #Claude