glossary term
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
The standard that lets an AI assistant like Claude talk to a tool like datanephew.
What it means
MCP is an open standard that defines how an AI assistant can call out to an external tool — in this case, datanephew — to fetch live data or take an action, rather than relying only on what it already knows.
Why it matters
It's why you can ask Claude a plain-English question about your traffic and get a real, current answer instead of a guess: Claude is calling datanephew's tools over MCP to fetch the actual numbers.
ask datanephew
Do I need to understand MCP to use datanephew?
No — connecting a source and asking a question is all that is required. MCP is just the plumbing underneath.
Does this mean my data goes through Claude's training?
No — data fetched over MCP is used to answer your question in that conversation and is not stored or used to train anything.
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