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Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by benocodes » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:06 PM UTC

somnium_sn wrote: post #3

@jspahrsummers and I have been working on this for the last few months at Anthropic. I am happy to answer any questions people might have.

Seems from the demo videos like Claude desktop app will soon support MCP. Can you share any info on when it will be rolled out?

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by kseifried » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:08 PM UTC

benocodes wrote: post #5

Good thread showing how this works: https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1861079762506252723

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https://unrollnow.com/status/1861079762506252723

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by slalani304 » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:10 PM UTC

somnium_sn wrote: post #3

@jspahrsummers and I have been working on this for the last few months at Anthropic. I am happy to answer any questions people might have.

Super cool and much needed open-standard. Wondering how this will work for websites/platforms that don't have exposed API's (LinkedIn, for example)

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by instagary » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:13 PM UTC

somnium_sn wrote: post #3

@jspahrsummers and I have been working on this for the last few months at Anthropic. I am happy to answer any questions people might have.

What is a practical use case for this protocol?

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by jspahrsummers » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:15 PM UTC

benocodes wrote: post #11

somnium_sn wrote: post #3

@jspahrsummers and I have been working on this for the last few months at Anthropic. I am happy to answer any questions people might have.

Seems from the demo videos like Claude desktop app will soon support MCP. Can you share any info on when it will be rolled out?

Already available in the latest at https://claude.ai/download!

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by outlore » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:17 PM UTC

i am curious: why this instead of feeding your LLM an OpenAPI spec?

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by somnium_sn » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:28 PM UTC

instagary wrote: post #14

somnium_sn wrote: post #3

@jspahrsummers and I have been working on this for the last few months at Anthropic. I am happy to answer any questions people might have.

What is a practical use case for this protocol?

A few common use cases that I've been using is connecting a development database in a local docker container to Claude Desktop or any other MCP Client (e.g. an IDE assistant panel). I visualized the database layout in Claude Desktop and then create a Django ORM layer in my editor (which has MCP integration).

Internally we have seen people experiment with a wide variety of different integrations from reading data files to managing their Github repositories through Claude using MCP. Alex's post https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1861079762506252723 has some good examples. Alternatively please take a look at https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers for a set of servers we found useful.

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by recsv-heredoc » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:28 PM UTC

Thank you for creating this.

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by ianbutler » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:34 PM UTC

I’m glad they're pushing for standards here, literally everyone has been writing their own integrations and the level of fragmentation (as they also mention) and repetition going into building the infra around agents is super high.

We’re building an in terminal coding agent and our next step was to connect to external services like sentry and github where we would also be making a bespoke integration or using a closed source provider. We appreciate that they have mcp integrations already for those services. Thanks Anthropic!

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by throwup238 » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:46 PM UTC

somnium_sn wrote: post #3

@jspahrsummers and I have been working on this for the last few months at Anthropic. I am happy to answer any questions people might have.

Are there any resources for building the LLM side of MCP so we can use the servers with our own integration? Is there a specific schema for exposing MCP information to tool or computer use?