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title: "Model Context Protocol — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog"
canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/mcp
as_of: 2026-09-27
updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z
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# Model Context Protocol (🧩 Products)

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Model Context Protocol is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 4 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 6 points lower than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 21 to Sep 21 (peak 28 on Sep 21).

Model Context Protocol (MCP): an open standard, created by Anthropic, for connecting AI agents to tools and data.

First seen on DEV Community (dev.to) · Sep 16 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days.

Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources.

- **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources
- **Hype score:** 4.5 / 100 · −2 in 1 day · −6.4 in 7 days
- **In hype since:** not in hype now
- **Peak, 30 days:** 32.6 on Sep 10, 2026
- **Category:** 🧩 Products
- **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md)
- **Official site:** [modelcontextprotocol.io](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)
- **Sources above normal:** 0 of 28 scoring it (0 independent families)
- **Stories in 7 days:** 976
- **Share of voice:** 3.8% of the radar’s attention in 7 days

## Where the attention comes from

“Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0.

| Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score |
|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:|
| Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 8 (Sep 26) | 5 | 1.5× | no | 37% |
| Google Trends (search interest) | search interest | 1.7 (Sep 25) | 0.8 | 1.5× | no | 32% |
| Luma (SF AI events) | events | 22 (Sep 26) | 15 | 1.4× | no | 31% |
| Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 2 | 1.7 | 1.1× | no | 0% |
| Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% |

## Stories behind it

1. [DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp: High-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 158 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewer tokens. Single static binary, zero dependencies.](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp) — GitHub Trending (DeusData) · score 44,395
2. [Astra Extra High in Blender. 10/10 I can't tell em apart.](https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1woo8ku/) — Reddit (r/codex) · Sep 24 · score 943 · 167 comments
3. [rgem227/knoweldge-base: Personal or team knowledge base, supports MCP API calls.](https://github.com/rgem227/knoweldge-base) — GitHub (rgem227) · Sep 22 · score 498
4. [Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879401) — Hacker News (hn.watch) · Sep 28 · score 117 · 69 comments
5. [How will AI change operating systems? Part 2: Windows](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/windows-and-ai) — AI newsletters (RSS) (The Pragmatic Engineer) · Sep 22 · score 110 · 9 comments
6. [Your API's newest users are agents...](https://dev.to/nikolas_dimitroulakis_d23/we-described-our-api-twice-once-for-humans-once-for-agents-4e4g) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 25 · score 62 · 11 comments
7. [Your Agent Thinks Too Much 🤖🍗 \| Crazy Thursday @ SF Tech Week](https://luma.com/seamate-tdd8) — Luma (SF AI events) (SEAMATE) · score 81
8. [Launch HN: Vespper \(YC F24\) – SOTA Docx MCP](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881505) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (vespper.com) · Sep 28 · score 23 · 8 comments
9. [An official #MCP for #IDA was released by @HexRaysSA https://hex-rays.com/blog/hex-rays-ida-mcp-server](https://infosec.exchange/@raptor/117337969237433431) — Mastodon (fediverse) (infosec.exchange) · Sep 26 · score 6 · 0 comments
10. [Plugin/MCP integration stuck in review for 2 weeks](https://community.openai.com/t/plugin-mcp-integration-stuck-in-review-for-2-weeks/1401693) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (OpenAI Developer Community) · Sep 28 · score 3 · 1 comment
11. [The missing layer in AI tooling: sharing what your assistant already knows](https://dev.to/uri_shmueli_a403e7acc04a8/the-missing-layer-in-ai-tooling-sharing-what-your-assistant-already-knows-1nch) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 22 · score 15 · 18 comments
12. [Qwen-3.8-27B is good enough that I stopped using API](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wp0z3i/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 24 · score 595 · 249 comments

## Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 928 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

- [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 81% of its stories
- [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 39% of its stories
- [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 20% of its stories
- [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 12% of its stories
- [Identity & auth](https://abovethefog.app/themes/identity_auth.md) — 11% of its stories
- [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 8.5% of its stories

Payment rails its stories name:

- [x402](https://abovethefog.app/themes/x402.md) — 12 stories
- [Stablecoins / crypto](https://abovethefog.app/themes/stablecoins_crypto.md) — 4 stories
- [PSPs & fintechs](https://abovethefog.app/themes/psp_fintech.md) — 2 stories
- [MPP](https://abovethefog.app/themes/mpp.md) — 1 story

## Related topics

- **Related to:** [Agent Skills](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_skills.md), [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md), [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md)
- **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md)
- **Mentioned with:** [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) (515 stories), [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md) (141 stories), [Agent harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_harness.md) (20 stories), [x402](https://abovethefog.app/topics/x402.md) (18 stories), [LangGraph](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langgraph.md) (7 stories)

## Hype score, last 30 days

| Day | Hype score | Stage |
|---|---:|---|
| Sep 27, 2026 | 4.5 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 6.5 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 7.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 18 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 10.2 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 8.7 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 27.7 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 10.9 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 17.4 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 19.8 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 25.2 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 7.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 5.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 2.4 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.8 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 25.5 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 32.6 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 31.3 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 18.5 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 14 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 3.6 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 4, 2026 | 27.1 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 3, 2026 | 17.2 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 2, 2026 | 22.1 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 1, 2026 | 29.2 | 🚀 Rising |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 4.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 0.3 | 💤 Quiet |

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Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar

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