The MCP Starter Kit — Turn On Your First Connectors, 20 Copy-Paste Prompts, and the Safety Checklist, All in Plain English
The companion kit to the video — MCP finally explained without a single line of code. In the video, an AI reads a rescheduled-dentist email, checks a calendar, MOVES the appointment to the new time by itself, and writes a full morning brief — five live demos on a real screen. This PDF is everything you need to do the same today, in plain English. INSIDE: (1) MCP IN ONE PAGE — the sealed-box idea, the two-step conversation every connector uses (the AI asks the app 'what can you do?', then says 'do it'), and who's behind the standard: created by Anthropic in late 2024, adopted by OpenAI and Google in 2025, built into Windows, donated to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation in December 2025 so no single company owns it. (2) TURN ON YOUR FIRST CONNECTOR IN 2 MINUTES — the exact clicks in Claude (web or desktop): Settings → Connectors → Connect; Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive are free for every account. (3) THE 10 CONNECTORS TO TRY FIRST — household names (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Notion, Canva, Stripe, Figma, Linear, Slack, Zoom) with one plain-English use each, from the official directory of 950+ connectors. (4) 20 MAGIC SENTENCES — copy-paste prompts grouped by connector, including the cross-app chains from the video ('read that email and put the meeting on my calendar') and the full morning-brief prompt. (5) THE SAFETY CHECKLIST — why you only connect apps you trust, what 'tool poisoning' means in one sentence, and the 5 rules that keep you safe. (6) THE WORDS DECODED — a tiny glossary so 'MCP', 'connector', 'agent', and 'the registry' never sound scary again. Every fact verified against the official Model Context Protocol spec (2026-07-28) and Anthropic's own published numbers.
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