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This is different toClaude with Computer Use.
Anthropic says it is an open protocol so could be implemented by other AI-powered apps in the future.
Albert wrote on X: Getting LLMs to interact with external systems isn’t usually that easy.
Today, every developer needs to write custom code to connect their LLM apps with data sources.
It’s messy, repetitive work.
MCP fixes this with a standard protocol for sharing resources, tools, and prompts.
MCP works with local and internet resources.
Setting it up is still a little bit clunky as this is a developer preview.
I suspect before it is integrated properly into apps like Claude it will be more user friendly.
To get it working you oughta have npx and python properly installed.
Check thequickstart guideif you want to try it for yourself, but remember it is an early development preview.
It did it perfectly with no errors.
Those came in after I tried to get it to improve the web app.
We ask AI to do things, it does it and just gives us what we asked for.
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