Feel free to try out the generator and use it to improve the README of your remote MCP server with the generated markdown. You can even configure the library to return HTML instructions if someone accesses your remote MCP server via the web.
Feel free to try out the generator and use it to improve the README of your remote MCP server with the generated markdown. You can even configure the library to return HTML instructions if someone accesses your remote MCP server via the web.
thamer•4mo ago
There's also this new effort by Anthropic to provide a packaging system for MCP servers, called MCPB or MCP Bundles[1]. A bundle is a zip file with a manifest inside it, a bit like how Chrome extensions are structured (maybe VSCode extensions too?).
Is this something you're looking to integrate with? I can't say I have seen any MCPB files anywhere just yet, but with a focus on simple installs and given that Anthropic introduced MCP in the first place, I wouldn't be surprised if this new format also got some traction. These archives could contain a lot more data than the small amount you're currently encoding in the URL though[2].
[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@anthropic-ai/mcpb
[2] https://github.com/anthropics/mcpb/blob/main/README.md#direc...
pmig•4mo ago
Thanks for the mcpb hint, we will look into it.
robertlagrant•4mo ago
Would you class all locally running software this way, and all remotely running software the inverse?
pmig•4mo ago
In the case of MCP, remote servers at least protect you from local file leakages.
thamer•4mo ago
Yes: the main reason is that I control which applications are configured with the command/args/environment to run the MCP server, instead of exposing a service on my localhost that any process on my computer can connect to (or worse, on my network if it listens on all interfaces).
I mostly run MCP servers that I've written, but otherwise most of the third party ones I use are related to software development and AI providers (e.g. context7, Replicate, ElevenLabs…). The last two costs me money when their tools are invoked, so I'm not about to expose them on a port given that auth doesn't happen at the protocol level.