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Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by orliesaurus »

bentiger88 wrote: post #58

One thing I dont understand.. does this rely on vector embeddings? Or how does the AI interact with the data? The example is a sqllite satabase with prices, and it shows claude being asked to give the average price and to suggest pricing optimizations. So does the entire db get fed into the context? Or is there another layer in between. What if the database is huge, and you want to ask the AI for the most expensive o…

it doesnt feed the whole DB into the context, it gives Claude the option to QUERY it directly

Re: Model Context Protocol

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jdorfman wrote: post #41
orliesaurus wrote: post #38

Are there any other Desktop apps other than Claude's supporting this?

Cody (VS Code plugin) is supporting MCP https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cody-supports-anthropic-model-c...

What about ChatGPT Desktop? Do you think they will add support for this?

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by somnium_sn »

jascha_eng wrote: post #53
jspahrsummers wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're definitely interested in extending MCP to cover remote connections as well. Both SDKs already support an SSE transport with that in mind: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/transports#ser... However, it's not quite a complete story yet. Remote connections introduce a lot more questions and complexity—related to deployment, auth, security, etc. We'll be working through these in the coming weeks, and w…

Will you also create some info on how other LLM providers can integrate this? So far it looks like it's mostly a protocol to integrate with anthropic models/desktop client. That's not what I thought of when I read open-source. It would be a lot more interesting to write a server for this if this allowed any model to interact with my data. Everyone would benefit from having more integration and you (anthropic) still w…

Note that both Sourcegraph's Cody and the Zed editor support MCP now. They offer other models besides Claude in their respective application.

The Model Context Protocol initial release aims to solve the N-to-M relation of LLM applications (mcp clients) and context providers (mcp servers). The application is free to choose any model they want. We carefully designed the protocol such that it is model independent.

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by rictic »

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.

I just want to say kudos for the design of the protocol. Seems inspired by https://langserver.org/ in all the right ways. Reading through it is a delight, there's so many tasteful little decisions.

One bit of constructive feedback: the TypeScript API isn't using the TypeScript type system to its fullest. For example, for tool providers, you could infer the type of a tool request handler's params from the json schema of the corresponding tool's input schema.

I guess that would be assuming that the model is doing constrained sampling correctly, such that it would never generate JSON that does not match the schema, which you might not want to bake into the reference server impl. It'd mean changes to the API too, since you'd need to connect the tool declaration and the request handler for that tool in order to connect their types.

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by jasonjmcghee »

quantadev wrote: post #47
jasonjmcghee wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not about the interface to make a request to a server, it's about how the client and server can interact. For example: When and how should notifications be sent and how should they be handled? --- It's a lot more like LSP.

Nobody [who knows what they're doing] wants their LLM API layer controlling anything about how their clients and servers interact though.

Not sure I understand your point. If it's your client / server, you are controlling how they interact, by implementing the necessaries according to the protocol.

If you're writing an LSP for a language, you're implementing the necessaries according to the protocol (when to show errors, inlay hints, code fixes, etc.) - it's not deciding on its own.

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by cma »

orliesaurus wrote: post #61
bentiger88 wrote: post #58

One thing I dont understand.. does this rely on vector embeddings? Or how does the AI interact with the data? The example is a sqllite satabase with prices, and it shows claude being asked to give the average price and to suggest pricing optimizations. So does the entire db get fed into the context? Or is there another layer in between. What if the database is huge, and you want to ask the AI for the most expensive o…

it doesnt feed the whole DB into the context, it gives Claude the option to QUERY it directly

It never accidentally deletes anything? Or I guess you give it read only access? It is querying it through this API and some adapter built for it, or the file gets sent through the API, they recognize it is sqllite and load it on their end?
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