MCP is the open Model Context Protocol from Anthropic. Alma plays the client side: it discovers the tools an external server exposes, surfaces them in the model tool palette, and forwards calls with your stored credentials. Whitelist v1 includes GitHub (search code, read files, list issues, read pull requests), Firecrawl (scrape and crawl any web page) and Context7 (live library documentation lookups).
Three guarantees: read-only (Alma never invokes write tools), per-user encrypted credentials (tokens never shared between users), allow-listed servers only (no Add any URL field). Custom servers and write tools are intentionally not in v1.