| ▲ | Remote MCP Support in Claude Code(anthropic.com) |
| 98 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 34 comments |
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| ▲ | vessenes 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This is great. As someone who has made a few MCP servers in the last few months, MAN this spec moves fast; well ahead of Anthropic's internal support for it, and well ahead of documentation for implementation. It's like the Javascript community suddenly got automatic code creation agents, and went to town.. That said, the original spec needed some rapid iteration. With https support finally in relatively good shape, I hope we'll be able to take a year to let the API dust settle. Spec updates every three months are really tough, especially when not versioned, thoroughly documented, or archived properly. |
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| ▲ | stingraycharles 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | Maxious 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | https://github.com/ruvnet/claude-code-flow adds some of the multiagent features ontop | | |
| ▲ | stingraycharles 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah that’s what I’m experimenting with, but I think it’s overengineered, especially with the whole dogmatic SPARC approach. I’m personally a more minimalistic person, and I would prefer it to be natively integrated into the app and being able to define exactly the (system) prompts for each of the agents. |
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| ▲ | CharlieDigital 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Javascript community suddenly got automatic code creation agents, and went to town.
I've been working on an MCP server[0] that let's LLMs safely and securely generate and execute JavaScript in a sandbox including using `fetch` to make API calls. It includes a built in secrets manager to prevent exposing secrets to the LLM.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 | |
| ▲ | rvnx 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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 | | |
| ▲ | diggan 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think this is why we're seeing founders selling so quickly with these startups. You could wait some weeks or months to sell higher, but seems chances are higher that whatever you've built is outdated by then so why risk it? |
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| ▲ | schappim 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is great news; remote MCP support should be open and accessible. For what it’s worth, I’ve been using WitsyAi: it’s fully free, open source, and serves as a universal desktop chat-client (with remote MCP calling). You just need to BYO API keys. Remote MCPs are close to my heart; I’ve been building a “Heroku for remote MCP tools” over at Ninja[2] to make it easy for people to spin up and share MCP tools without the usual setup headaches. Lately, I’ve also been helping folks get started with MCP development on Raspberry Pi. If you’re keen to dive in, feel free to reach out [3]. [1] https://witsyai.com [2] https://ninja.ai [3] https://calendly.com/schappi/30min |
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| ▲ | aberoham 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | I've found this from an old-school systems geek to be useful https://github.com/giantswarm/mcp-debug -- especially its REPL mode | | |
| ▲ | mark_undoio an hour ago | parent [-] | | Thanks for this - I've been using the MCP Inspector https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/tools/inspector but find it doesn't really fit my workflow. I like the fact this mcp-debug tool can present a REPL and act as a mcp server itself. We've been developing our MCP servers by first testing the principle with the "meat robot" approach - we tell the LLM (sometimes just through the stock web interface, no coding agent) what we're able to provide and just give it what it asks for - when we find a "tool" that works well we automate it. This feels like it's an easier way of trying that process - we're finding it's very important to build an MCP interface that works with what LLMs "want" to do. Without impedance matching it can be difficult to get the overall outcome you want (I suspect this is worse if there's not much training data out there that resembles your problem). |
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| ▲ | joshwarwick15 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| List of servers to connect to here: https://github.com/jaw9c/awesome-remote-mcp-servers |
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| ▲ | movedx01 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | hirsin an hour ago | parent [-] | | The MCP server technically doesn't support DCR. The authorization server for the MCP server does, which is a minor distinction. Have you seen significant need for this? I've been trying to find data on things like "how many MCP clients are there really" - if it takes off where everything is going to be an MCP client && dynamically discovering what tools it needs beyond what it was originally set up for, sure. |
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| ▲ | digitcatphd 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Thanks!!! |
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| ▲ | anotherpaul 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If I understand correctly MCP is the interface to connect any API to LLMs. Now a lot of people use it to add context to their model. And also tool calls? I am using continue.dev not Claude but I imagine this tech stack will be ported everywhere. As a python Dev I don't quite yet understand though how and what service I should be running. Or be using. Tbh. Can anyone ELI5? |
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| ▲ | beatthatflight an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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). |
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| ▲ | rane an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How is this different from the existing MCP support in Claude Code? |
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| ▲ | WhitneyLand an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| On a related note what’s the hesitation for Anthropic/OpenAI to open up their mobile apps to diy mcp servers? |
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| ▲ | nvahalik 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Used this Friday to have Claude do some stuff but telling it to read a Linear ticket and make appropriate changes. Not perfect but saved me 15 minutes. |
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| ▲ | Aeolun 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Unless you try to add Github, and it fails everywhere :/ |
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| ▲ | geeunits 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I put 10 months of work into MCP. Been a Max 20 x subscriber since Day 1. Spent thousands via the API previously. Anthropic randomly banned my account with no warning or explanation last week. I've had to spent significant time and resources moving AWAY from MCP. Do not get comfy with any of these protocols or companies. They can destroy your workflows and livelihood in an instant. |
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| ▲ | Aeolun 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | What does MCP has anything to do with Anthropic or Claude Max? I mean, they made the protocol, but it works everywhere. | | |
| ▲ | geeunits 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | They invented the protocol? I used Claude Desktop extensively in testing. No other local clients currently interop very well with MCP Tooling. They're more of an afterthought for other clients. | | |
| ▲ | Aeolun 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sure, but it’s not suddenly useless to you because Anthropic restricts you. Those 10 months of building MCP servers are still of use, even if I can only imagine how frustrating losing Claude Max must be (recent x20 subscriber here) | | |
| ▲ | geeunits 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The difference is, they were being used. Now they'll only be of use further down the line, and I have to readjust my daily workflow. Just because. It's highly frustrating and makes me regret putting so much effort in embracing 'the Anthropic way' when a rug pull can come out of nowhere. I wish I'd put that effort into my own tooling instead. Just a fair warning to anyone getting comfortable. | | |
| ▲ | Aeolun 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I guess I’m just riding the wave while I can. I’d be pissed if the rug is pulled, but can’t do much more than move on. | |
| ▲ | owebmaster an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | What were you doing that got you banned? | | |
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| ▲ | iddan 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm using https://xander.bot, which already leverages MCP connection between Claude Code and Linear. Really awesome stuff, how it knows how to gather context from Linear. |
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| ▲ | michaericalribo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| When will Gemini release a desktop app and enable MCP and coding agents?? |
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| ▲ | mark_undoio an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | artdigital 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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 |
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| ▲ | richardblackbox 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This is great, we have recently released on the blackboxai vscode agent a live call with the coding agent Will be trying the MCP with the live call as well, i think it should work |