It has been moving fast.

One weird thing I found a few weeks ago, when I added my remote MCP to Claude's integration tab on the website, I was getting OAuth errors.

Turns out they are requiring a special "claudeai" scope. Once I added that to my server, I was able to use it remotely in claude desktop!

I couldn't find any docs or reasons online for them requesting this scope.

Also, I have been using remote mcps in claude code for weeks with the awesome mcp-remote proxy tool. It's nice to not need that any longer!

Then as I'm writing a book currently on MCP Servers with OAuth, Elicitations come out! I'm rushing to update this book and be the best source for every part of the latest spec, as I can already see lots of gaps in documentation on all these things.

Huge shout out to VS Code for being the best MCP Client, they have support for Elicitations in Insiders already and it works great from my testing.

Yeah, security really is an afterthought with most of these tools, but man the community is moving insanely fast — probably because most of these people are using these automation tools to develop their MCP servers in the first place.

It’s interesting to see other tools struggling to keep up. ChatGPT supposedly will get proper MCP client support “any day now”, but I don’t see codex supporting it any time soon.

Aider is very much struggling to adapt as well, as their whole workflow of editing and navigating files is easily replaced by MCP servers (probably better as well, as it provides much effective ways of reducing noise vs signal), so it’ll be interesting to see how tools adapt.

I’d love for Claude Code (or any tool for that matter) to fully embrace the agentic way of coding, e.g. have multiple agents specialize in different topics and some “main” agent directing them all. Those workflows seem to be working really well.

> Spec updates every three months are really tough, especially when not versioned, thoroughly documented, or archived properly.

Couldnt AI help with that..?

    > Javascript community suddenly got automatic code creation agents, and went to town.

I think this unlocks a lot of use cases that require code execution without compromising security. Biggest one is that you can now ask the LLM to make API calls securely because the JS is run in a C# interpreter with constraints for memory, time, and statement limits with hidden secrets (e.g. API keys).

The implementation is open source with sample client code in JS using Vercel AI SDK with a demo UI as well.

[0] https://github.com/CharlieDigital/runjs

The crazy thing about things moving fast is that people bought Cursor for hundreds of millions when it is already outdated by Claude Code. Very foolish by the purchasers but very smart for the founders

I've found this from an old-school systems geek to be useful https://github.com/giantswarm/mcp-debug -- especially its REPL mode

That's great! It would be even better if one of the features included in the table was whether given MCP supports OAuth Dynamic Client Registration, which optional in the MCP standard.

Thanks!!!

Context7 is quite useful for coding, imo

I searched for this mcp server just to see what it was, and afaict Claude Code has all of these features built in already.

What is the additional functionality?

I feel like they had to have read this and added that out of spite.

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-butt...

Probably app approvers and dealing with that muck?

You can give LLMs useful tools to have more rich interactions with them - help them help you more.

They're also fun and easy to build.

Here's one I made - it wraps the vscode debugger: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/claude-debugs-for-you

I've specifically tested it with continue.dev so it might serve as a useful example / template.

easiest one to get going with is to add the Playwright MCP. As a python dev you might have used it to do test automation? Anyway, it gives your tool eg Cursor, Claude Code access to the browser and automation using playwright. Meaning it can literally load a page to confirm its own change just had the desired effect.

The blender one is also fun as a starting point, if you do any 3d modelling (or even if you don't).

If you like that workflow you might love the tool[0] which I built specifically to support it: CheepCode connects to Linear and works on tickets as they roll in, submitting PRs to GitHub.

[0] https://cheepcode.com

Cursor + Gemini is rather good.

I assume you're aware but there are some open source assistants that can get you this (at least to some extent).

E.g. Codename Goose https://block.github.io/goose/docs/quickstart/

Which I think supports Gemini among with all the other major AI providers, plus MCP. I have heard anecdotally that it doesn't work as well as Claude Code, so maybe there are additional smarts required to make a top notch agent.

I've also heard that Claude is just the best LLM at tool use at the moment, so YMMV with other models.

Not a desktop app, but Gemini has “Jules” which is their autonomous coding agent

You hook up your GitHub repo and it’ll clone it, setup the env and then work on the task you give it

Reach out to support. Unless you were doing something egregiously against terms of use, I doubt you'll have trouble getting your access restored.

Also- Claude desktop is honestly one of the more minimal implementations of an mcp client with a bunch of missing features. Just search for mcp clients. There are many you can use.

What does MCP has anything to do with Anthropic or Claude Max? I mean, they made the protocol, but it works everywhere.