A Model Context Protocol server — a tool backend AI assistants connect to.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers expose tools and data sources to AI assistants like Claude. As organizations wire assistants into real systems, each MCP server becomes supply-chain surface: it runs with real credentials and executes real actions on behalf of the model.
Safeguard extends the same verification discipline to MCP servers — reviewing what they access, what they execute, and what they ship — because an unvetted tool server behind an AI assistant is an unvetted dependency with hands.