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Re: MCP Gateway and Registry

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Post by jumploops »

Does anyone use MCP within their product, or is the MCP ecosystem entirely focused on enabling new workflows within an existing chat/agent framework (a la Cursor or Claude code)?

Assuming the latter, are there any viable non-developer MCP clients?

Re: MCP Gateway and Registry

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Post by ares623 »

thecopy wrote: post #2

Many Gateways popping up now, im also doing my own gateway ( https://mcp-boss.com/ ) but im starting to worry its hard to compete with Docker, Microsoft, now IBM...

You should pivot to building an MCP for all the MCP gateways

Re: MCP Gateway and Registry

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Post by Xantier »

I find the context forge quite nice from IBM. I used a few approaches they've implemented within my Ctxpack context management solution as well.

I think the agentic use cases aside, the client side of MCPs are still lacking quite a bit and would need to mature to be able to catch up to the spec. I feel a lot of use cases exist outside of fully automated agentic approaches, since we can't really rely on LLMs yet to produce at a human level.

The underserved cases rely a lot on prompt and resource management at the moment. Being able to iterate and share those across teams to provide easy starting points to delegate tasks is something I feel would be workable for the current iteration of AI assisted work, outside of pure software engineering.

Hopefully other clients join VS Code Copilot to allow more varied approaches than just simple tool calls here. I think Copilot's approach on prompt and resource management isn't quite the best approach either though. It is still early days for MCPs in general so i think we'll see a lot of experiments in this space.

Re: MCP Gateway and Registry

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Post by Xantier »

jumploops wrote: post #3

Does anyone use MCP within their product, or is the MCP ecosystem entirely focused on enabling new workflows within an existing chat/agent framework (a la Cursor or Claude code)? Assuming the latter, are there any viable non-developer MCP clients?

I've done a bit of research around trying to find the best, simple clients that don't need an engineering degree to set up but haven't really stumbled upon a good one yet. Claude desktop app advertises that they support all features (they don't), all the others with closer to full spec compliance are related to software development (VS Code and Continue etc.).

Re: MCP Gateway and Registry

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Post by fhd2 »

blitzar wrote: post #7

IBM pivoting to Ai, must be getting close to the top now.

Not sure I'd call that a pivot, they've been at it for many years and even at the forefront every now and then, e.g. IBM Watson. At least it seems like that from my non-specialist, outside perspective.
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