An MCP host is an environment that connects to external MCP servers and surfaces their tools to a language model — Claude Code, Cursor, and AGNT itself are all MCP hosts.
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What is MCP Host?
An MCP host is an environment that connects to external MCP servers and surfaces their tools to a language model — Claude Code, Cursor, and AGNT itself are all MCP hosts.
As a host, AGNT can register third-party MCP servers at runtime and expose their tools to any AGNT agent through the soul loader. Because the host-server protocol is open, the same server a developer wrote for Claude Code also works inside AGNT with no modification.
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An MCP host is an environment that connects to external MCP servers and surfaces their tools to a language model — Claude Code, Cursor, and AGNT itself are all MCP hosts.
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MCP
MCP is an open standard that lets large language models call external tools through a declarative schema, without any provider-specific glue code.
MCP Server
An MCP server is a process that exposes tools to LLMs via the Model Context Protocol — declaring each tool's name, description, and JSON schema, speaking over stdio or Server-Sent Events.
Soul Loader Module
A Soul Loader Module is a declarative capability unit registered with AGNT's soul loader — the format Claude Code skills are adapted into when they enter AGNT.
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