The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to outside data and tools through one common interface, instead of a custom integration for every application.
There are two sides. The client is the AI application: a desktop assistant, a coding agent, a script you wrote. The server sits in front of some body of data and advertises what it offers — tools the model can call, resources it can read. The client asks what is available, the model decides what it wants, and the server answers.
Without a shared protocol, connecting a dozen assistants to a dozen data sources means building and maintaining well over a hundred separate integrations. With one, each side implements it once. That is why connecting an MCP tool to a new agent is usually a single configuration entry rather than an SDK.
The protocol says nothing about where a server runs. It can sit in a company's cloud, reachable by anything holding a valid token, or entirely on your own machine, reachable by nothing else. The protocol looks the same either way; for privacy it is the whole question.
Every meeting Xtify captures becomes structured memory — decisions, action items, risks, follow-ups, transcripts. Xtify exposes that memory through a Model Context Protocol server that starts with the app, listens only on localhost, and reads straight from the index on your disk.
There is no cloud endpoint to enable and no memory copied to our servers, so a third-party cloud agent has no route in. Anything implementing an MCP client works the same way — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Zed, or a few lines of your own code. The server is read-only: an agent can recall a meeting, never rewrite one. Local MCP is available on Pro Max and above.
No. In a desktop assistant that supports MCP, connecting Xtify is a single entry in that application's configuration file, after which you ask questions in plain language and the agent decides which Xtify tool to call. Writing your own client is possible, and is the route for custom automation, but it is not the usual path.
No. Xtify's server binds to 127.0.0.1, which means it accepts connections only from the machine it runs on, so a cloud service has nothing to connect to. This is the difference between a local MCP server and the cloud-hosted kind most meeting tools expose, where any suitably authorized cloud agent can query your transcripts.
No — it is an open protocol, and implementations exist across a range of assistants and editors. That is the reason Xtify implements the standard rather than building one integration per agent: whatever you move to next only has to speak MCP.