Terminology

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Term	Description
server	A MCP server. e.g. MCP-wolfram-alpha, MCP-searxng, MCP-timeserver
bridge	The MCP-Bridge application
client	A generic MCP client. e.g. claude desktop. This includes the bridge
upstream	The MCP-SDK
inference engine	LLM runtime such as ollama, vllm, openai api