“MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs”
The user workflow in the MCP world is a good UX primitive to explore. i’m capturing some interesting early finds here.
Revisit this master twitter thread by latent space - https://x.com/latentspacepod/status/1899186592939692371
Hosts, Servers, Clients
- Hosts are user applications that host the clients like AI tools. these clients will talk to servers to perform the required actions
- servers can be local data sources, web apis, browser etc. with acces to resources, prompts and tools.
- This is an informative 10min video https://x.com/mckaywrigley/status/1898109392341385509
user creates a “space” or a server. the server is a virtual session with access to a set of tools like browser, database, linkedin, email etc.
they interact with the AI agent in a chat-interface and ask it to do things.
- this demo is a great example - https://x.com/Karmedge/status/1899825488379392333. he has a private server with access to his apollo, linkedin, email etc. he shares a linkedin post, asks to fetch details of people who commented, get their emials, write personalined emails.