- Mode
- Connected
- Surface
- Any surface that accepts an outside tool
- Who holds the data
- The tool you connect
- Transport
- MCP
What renders where
One port, and an empty slot next to it.
The empty slot is the argument. A connection surface that only fits the tools a vendor chose is a shorter list, not a general answer.

Your server
An MCP server you run or one the vendor publishes. Crusible is a client, not a host.
The surface
Resources render in the surface frame. Tools become actions an agent may take, subject to its permission set.
The workspace does not notice
Same channel, same conversation, same agents. Nothing above the surface knows which tool is underneath.
The empty slot
Room for the tool nobody has written a connector for yet, including your internal one.
What you can do with it
Three things a generic connection buys you.
Your internal tools
The deploy tool nobody outside your company has heard of becomes a surface, with agents operating it, without us shipping a connector.
Tools we have not covered
The eleven named tools are the launch set, not the boundary. MCP is how the boundary stops mattering.
One permission model
An MCP tool call is subject to the same per-agent permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Connecting a tool does not open a side door.
Questions
What if my tool does not speak MCP?
Is Crusible an MCP server or a client?
Which surfaces accept an MCP tool?
Bring the tool nobody wrote a connector for.
If it speaks MCP, it already works. Point it at a surface and let your agents operate it.