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.
What is MCP Host?
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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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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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