Remote MCP Support in Claude Code
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?
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.
List of servers to connect to here: https://github.com/jaw9c/awesome-remote-mcp-servers
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!!!
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].
[2] https://ninja.ai
I've found this from an old-school systems geek to be useful https://github.com/giantswarm/mcp-debug -- especially its REPL mode
Unless you try to add Github, and it fails everywhere :/
When will Gemini release a desktop app and enable MCP and coding agents??
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
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.
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
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.
What does MCP has anything to do with Anthropic or Claude Max? I mean, they made the protocol, but it works everywhere.
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.
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)
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.
What were you doing that got you banned?
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.
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.
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.
https://github.com/ruvnet/claude-code-flow adds some of the multiagent features ontop
Yeah that’s what I’m experimenting with, but would prefer it to be natively integrated into the app and being able to define exactly the (system) prompts for each of the agents.
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 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?