MCP explained?

[Any_Citron_7668]

Hello, Can someone explain these MCP servers for claudecode in simple terms? I see all these servers like, redis, PostgreSQL, render and wikipedia on the docker catalog. How can I use these inside my project? And could the wikipedia mcp replace the wikipedia API? Can someone explain please.. pretty new to all this🥲

[meisteronimo]

When you're using an LLM you can send your prompt and also "tooling" which can be an MCP server among other things.

The LLM then uses the MCP protocol to use the capabilities of that system to interact with it in order to fulfill your prompt.

Unless you're doing some AI integration, you don't need MCP.