From REST APIs to MCP: Making Messaging Infrastructure AI-Native

AI agents don't just execute API calls. They reason about infrastructure before acting.

For years, messaging infrastructure has been exposed through REST APIs.

AI agents require something fundamentally different.

Instead of blindly calling send_sms(), they need to understand routing, execution cost, capabilities and delivery state before execution.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) makes this possible by exposing infrastructure capabilities instead of isolated endpoints.

Messaging infrastructure becomes part of the reasoning loop.

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