What is MCP? The AI Connection Standard Explained
Model Context Protocol is the standard that makes AI agents actually useful. Here's how it works under the hood.
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Co-Founder · Deconstraint
Travis Sanford is an infrastructure engineer currently at Stellar Cyber, where he works on cybersecurity systems at scale. His background spans cloud infrastructure, site reliability engineering, and distributed systems — the kind of work that requires things to not break in production.
At Deconstraint, Travis leads deployment and infrastructure. His writing covers the technical side of AI agents — what MCP actually is, how autonomous systems get built, and what it takes to run AI reliably at the small business scale.
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