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I wanted to give Claude the ability to check the weather. Not by scraping websites or parsing HTML, but properly - with actual tools that return structured data. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) makes this possible, and Cloudflare Workers turned out to be the perfect place to host it. MCP is Anthropic's open protocol for connecting AI assistants to external data sources and tools. Instead of Claude having a fixed set of capabilities, you can extend it with custom servers that provide new tools, resources, and prompts. Think of it as a plugin system, but standardized and interoperable.