N (LLM clients/vendors) x M (tools/tool suppliers). The N×M problem may simply be moved rather than solved: - Instead of N×M direct integrations - We now

N (LLM clients/vendors) x M (tools/tool suppliers). The N×M problem may simply be moved rather than solved: - Instead of N×M direct integrations - We now have N MCP client implementations - M MCP server implementations This feels similar to SOAP but might be more of a lower level protocol similar to HTTP itself. Hard to tell with the implementation examples being pretty subjective programs in python.