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Model Context Protocol

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Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by s3tt3mbr1n1 »

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.

First, thank you for working on this.

Second, a question. Computer Use and JSON mode are great for creating a quasi-API for legacy software which offers no integration possibilities. Can MCP better help with legacy software interactions, and if so, in what ways?

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by jspahrsummers »

s3tt3mbr1n1 wrote: post #4
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.

First, thank you for working on this. Second, a question. Computer Use and JSON mode are great for creating a quasi-API for legacy software which offers no integration possibilities. Can MCP better help with legacy software interactions, and if so, in what ways?

Probably, yes! You could imagine building an MCP server (integration) for a particular piece of legacy software, and inside that server, you could employ Computer Use to actually use and automate it.

The benefit would be that to the application connecting to your MCP server, it just looks like any other integration, and you can encapsulate a lot of the complexity of Computer Use under the hood.

If you explore this, we'd love to see what you come up with!

Re: Model Context Protocol

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Post by kseifried »

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.

For additional context the PyPi package: https://pypi.org/project/mcp/

And the GitHub repo: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol

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