An open protocol for exposing tools, resources and prompts to AI clients in a standard way, so one integration serves many agents.
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You wrapped Jira and your internal search as MCP servers instead of writing custom glue per agent.
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Integrations are MCP servers behind a gateway, so each one is built once and governed in one place.
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