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Which tools can currently invoke MCP? I have read only a little about MCP and got to know that Claude's desktop application is capable of using MCP locally.

Are there any chat interfaces which allow using MCP remotely?

I would like to be able to specify MCP endpoints and the functions they offer in ChatGPT's, Claude's and Gemini's web interfaces so that I can have them call my servers remotely. A bit like "GPTs" and "Gems".

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I touch on this briefly in the video, beside Claude Desktop, 5ire is a fairly model-agnostic local MCP client, I'm sure there are others.

sama also recently mentioned ChatGPT Desktop is getting MCP client functionality "soon".

As for remote clients, Cloudflare has some really useful tooling, look at their "AI Playground".

OpenAI just announced support in their Agents SDK. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485566 https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/mcp/

I use them in Cursor. Writing an MCP server is trivial, just ask Cursor to put one together in TypeScript. You would use your local MCP server to call whatever remote API you want (or perform some other task). The MCP server uses stdin/stdout to talk to Cursor.

You can use MCP servers in SAM (Solace Agent Mesh). That has a chat interface and can be run remotely. Perhaps the easiest way to do it remotely is to use a Slack integration to SAM with a free Slack workspace, which doesn't require poking a hole to serve the browser UI

https://github.com/SolaceLabs/solace-agent-mesh

I'm using Librechat which I've found to be quite feature complete. I updated an Obsidian MCP to get my most recent journal entries to act like a therapist. Example setup here: https://www.jevy.org/articles/obsidian-mcps-to-work-with-not...

@jevyjevjevs,

Can you add rss feed to your site blog? I found few of the articles interesting and helpful. I would like to subscribe but I don't see rss or email subscription.

I had the same question as you, and some quick Googling led me to this list here:

https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-clients

and the list of servers - https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers

Block has an open source tool called Goose that invokes MCP. https://block.github.io/goose/

Is there a trick to making it work well? I tried Goose briefly but it seemed very flaky compared to Open Web UI with hand-configured tool calling.

Unity, Blender and Photoshop all have rough MCP integrations available. You can find them on GitHub.

If you run some proxy server, you could run MCP servers remotely

Cursor has support for it I believe

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