The Model Context Protocol lets Claude Code reach beyond your codebase — into your databases, issue trackers, docs, and services — through a standard, pluggable interface.
The Model Context Protocol lets Claude Code reach beyond the codebase into databases, trackers, docs, and services through a standard interface — what MCP is, how to connect servers, and treating each server as a least-privilege trust decision.
The demo ran on your laptop with clean data — production means the customer's messy systems, their security rules, and their data as it actually is, which is where most forward deployed work is really won.
Production means the customer's messy data, systems you don't control, and security you must pass: profiling dirty data, loose-coupling integrations, treating security/residency as gates, and deploying + handing over so you can actually leave.
Why HL7 v2 — a 50-year-old pipe-delimited protocol — still drives most US hospital ADT integrations in 2026, and what a clean Go parser looks like in ~300 lines.