AI/Coding/History/Phase/5 - Context Engineering/MCP Servers

• After March 2025, many IDEs such as CursorAI and some CLIs such as Claude/Code implemented an MCP/Client into the agentic coding chat interface, so developers could give AI MCP Servers to which enabled them to ask the AI to both sense and act on external context, for example
  • GitHub/MCP included the ability open and update PRs, to read CICD logs and GitHub/Issues
  • Atlassian/MCP included the ability to edit and read Confluence, JIRA
  • Playwright/MCP included the ability to check out a web application's display looked like in the browser, giving it the ability to "see"