LM Studio + MCP: local models connected to the world without cloud APIs

LM Studio adds support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard proposed by Anthropic for connecting AI models to external tools and data. In practice, your local model can now read files on your computer, query databases, search the web, or interact with external applications — all without sending anything to cloud servers. Just start a local MCP server and configure it in LM Studio. Local models become capable agents that can do things, not just answer questions.