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# MCP Units: Composable Modules for the Agentic Era

DEV Community·Ryan Banze·6 months ago
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Every app you've ever shipped was built for a human to click through. That era has an expiry date.

AI agents are no longer coming — they're already here, reshaping the tools you use, the workflows you run, and decisions that used to need a human in the loop. And as that happens, a new layer of infrastructure is quietly becoming the standard. Agentic protocols. MCP. A2A. x402. Not buzzwords — actual contracts between agents and the systems they need to act in.

The shift is architectural and worth sitting with for a second. HTTP was built for browsers. For humans who navigate, click, and wait. Agentic protocols are built for something that doesn't navigate — it decides. It doesn't need a button. It needs a verb.

MCP is where I think this gets most practical. You take your existing capabilities — whatever your app already does — and you expose them as things an agent can call: tools it can invoke, data it can read, prompt templates it can fetch. You're not rebuilding anything.…

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