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MCP ships; payment does not

From the Machine Economy Archive · event 2024-11-28 · zFinia 2026-09-07 · TIER_C

Anthropic open-sourced MCP on 25 November 2024. Tool calling got a shared contract. Billing did not. That split still defines paid MCP a year later.

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