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Edition #5 - 05 Jun 2025
Topic tags - mcp
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Hey all! 
@lizhennessy here from the Apollo Education team. I’m a Developer Educator and I build courses for Odyssey, our official learning platform.
This week, we’re giving you just a taste of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) done Apollo style!
This week’s learning: What is MCP?
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the emerging standard for communication between services and AI assistants. An MCP server sits in the middle of both, defining an interface of permitted actions (known as tools) that an assistant can use to resolve user requests.
So, what exactly do we as developers get out of it?
First off: fine-grained control over what data an assistant is permitted to fetch, and how that fetching actually happens. And second: when combined with the power of GraphQL, assistants can trigger a single declarative query that spans ALL of our backend services.
In a nutshell, we get AI integrations without the AI anxiety. What’s not to love?
Want to go deeper?
Check out the Getting Started with MCP and GraphQL course on Odyssey. We’ll configure the Apollo MCP server, hook up an assistant, and power up our automated customer interactions.
Share your thoughts in the thread below 
There are lots of MCP solutions coming from lots of places. Which ones have you tried? How does the Apollo MCP server stack up with your experiences? Let us know!