If you went to pi.dev in the past, you found a proud declaration that Pi does not support MCP. If you listen to podcasts where we talked about Pi, you will have found more than one dismissive statement about MCP from us. Including a post by Mario about it. And yet, if you upgrade to Pi you will find MCP is now a supported piece of functionality. What happened?
The first thing to remember is that the world is not static. We have been paying attention to MCP over the last year and the MCP of today is not the MCP of yesteryear. That alone would not be much of a reason to put it into the core, however. As you know, Pi has a great ecosystem of extensions, surely MCP could have been an extension? Maybe even an Earendil endorsed extension. And yes you are indeed correct in that MCP could have been an extension, as it was. That MCP is now part of the core is a result of us putting our heads together and rethinking it.
