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Re: Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code

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Post by sfaist »

babyshake wrote: post #38
sfaist wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! The primary reason is because we want folks to be able to run this locally and contribute to the project / fix issues as they come up. This is much harder when you have a black box tool and rely on our small team for support.

Because of the GNU General Public License, any project/startup that makes use of Superglue is required to open source all their code under the same license? I'm not a license/copyright expert, so I'm a bit fuzzy about how this is supposed to work.

Not quite. The server runs standalone, so you can use it just as you would use linux as part of your project without affecting your own code. The client libraries that become part of your code are MIT licensed. The reason we made this decision is to prevent AWS & co from copying all of our code without contributing to the project.

Re: Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code

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Post by sfaist »

babyshake wrote: post #36
dantodor wrote: post #31

Once you have the OpenAPI specs, you can build an MCP server on top of that. Automatically. You don't have them ? There's MITM2Swagger[0] that will do it's best to infer it. Probably you'll need some manual adjustments, but still. And MCP servers can now be integrated with any LLM, not only Anthropic. While I appreciate your approach, how do you fight the MCPs? [0] https://github.com/alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

And with MCP, the idea is that the agent can translate a natural language instruction into the specific API request and then translate the schema into whatever structured output format you want? Is there anything that Superglue does that you wouldn't get somewhat out of the box using agents and MCP? I'm not too familiar with MCP so still trying to understand how it compares to this sort of thing.

my personal understanding (anyone feel free to correct me here) of MCP is that it is basically a standardized interface for tool use. So, if you as an API provider (e.g. stripe) want agents to connect to your API, you can offer an MCP server that serves as a middleman between you and the agent. What we fundamentally do is serve also as a middleman, but not (primarily, yet) for agents, but for normal (non-AI) applications that would otherwise need to use the REST/SOAP/whatever API with a bunch of integration code. Also, MCP does not do any data transformation, that would be on the agent to do.

Re: Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code

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Post by nbbaier »

dantodor wrote: post #31

Once you have the OpenAPI specs, you can build an MCP server on top of that. Automatically. You don't have them ? There's MITM2Swagger[0] that will do it's best to infer it. Probably you'll need some manual adjustments, but still. And MCP servers can now be integrated with any LLM, not only Anthropic. While I appreciate your approach, how do you fight the MCPs? [0] https://github.com/alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

> Once you have the OpenAPI specs, you can build an MCP server on top of that. Automatically.

What's the route to doing this automatically? Is there some tool for doing this?

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