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MCP platform layer growth and OpenClaw server support

April 3, 2026Jon Lai

Jon Lai reports MCP usage exploding to 132 million monthly npm downloads and notes MCP server support for OpenClaw, framing MCP as the emerging platform layer for agent tooling.

MCP grew 70x to 132m monthly npm downloads over the last year
that's same tier as core web infra like Next.js (153m) and ahead of OAI (67m) and Anthropic (37m) SDKs.
@steipete announced MCP server support for openclaw last weekend
MCP is becoming the real platform layer
Jon Lai
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