Why MCP won
It details the motivation behind MCP, its core components, and real-world use cases, including its potential as a foundational protocol for AI agents through composability and sampling. The Latent Space article analyzes the reasons for MCP's rapid adoption, attributing its success to its "AI-native" design, backing by Anthropic, strong developer brand association, inspiration from the successful Language Server Protocol (LSP), comprehensive first-party support, and iterative development.