MCP Electrical Systems Architecture
What happens when you map MCP to an electrical grid - power sources become data repositories, servers become voltage transformers, permission systems become circuit breakers, and the architecture becomes viscerally understandable
A socio-technical systems analysis of the Model Context Protocol using electrical grid metaphors - mapping data sources to power generators, MCP servers to voltage transformers, MCP clients to power distributors, permission systems to circuit breakers, and legacy incompatibilities to resistance points, with agency analysis showing where human control, negotiated AI autonomy, and automated responses flow through the system.
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