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?
Assuming the latter, are there any viable non-developer MCP clients?
API's, even simple JSON data requests from websites and services were becoming increasing blocked behind cloudflare or hidden as a paid feature, MPC has revived (some of) the open data standards of the internet.
ChatGPT has limited MCP support as of now (read only use cases with deep research) but the expectation is that full MCP support might be dropping soon.
MCP allows to both: - Mount these into your chatbot of choice - Use these in any automation (custom chatbot or other LLM flow) if your framework supports MCP
Tbf I am still under the impression that for the later use case you would rather use the (HTTP) API directly because MCP doesn't allow you to customize the tool descriptions and if you truly want to make your automation perform well you need to iterate on those in my experience.
Writing a client capable of parsing and using that description isn’t much easier.
Unsurprisingly, it appears there’s no real spec: https://www.utcp.io/about/RFC
Fair enough, but when restricting yourself to the problem of tool calling, giving the AI the ability to call APIs in a simplified way, rather than inventing a new communication protocol like MCP, is, in a lot of cases, better.
MCP, is just a really good M2M documentation.