Field notes on AI-era growth, deliverability, voice, and messaging for developers and teams building on Orbit by Devotel.
An MCP server is a program that exposes tools, data, and prompts to an AI model over the Model Context Protocol. This guide defines the term plainly, separates an MCP server from a plain API, maps the six capability classes the protocol specifies, and shows where Devotel Orbit's shipped MCP surface sits.
Four communications platforms ship an official MCP server — Orbit, Telnyx, Twilio, and Vonage. This head-to-head scores them on read-write tool coverage, agent-skills catalogs, phased rollouts, and native agent-runtime depth.
The canonical explainer for the agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol — how it standardizes cross-organization agent communication, why it complements rather than competes with MCP, and how it maps to Devotel Orbit's MCP server and intra-account agent squads.
Agent-to-agent (A2A) is the open protocol for letting one AI agent delegate a task to another, with discovery via a public Agent Card and a task lifecycle over JSON-RPC. This explainer decodes what A2A actually specifies, how it complements the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and how Devotel Orbit's multi-agent squads sit on top of it.
The Devotel Orbit MCP server gives Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants read-write tools against your real account — send SMS and WhatsApp, place calls, start campaigns, pull analytics — with scoped credentials and a human approval step for sensitive values.
The canonical explainer for the Model Context Protocol in a CPaaS context — how the Devotel Orbit MCP server lets Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI clients call real tools against your account over scoped OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange credentials, with URL-mode elicitation for sensitive values.
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