Model Context Protocol

An overview of MCP and how to connect MCP servers to ellmer and chatlas.

NoteBonus material

We won’t cover this unit during the workshop. It’s included for anyone who wants to go further on their own. Expect to spend about 20 minutes on the activities.

Slides

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Outline

• Overview of MCP and how it works
• MCP in Positron: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/8377
  • MCP in VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/customization/mcp-servers
• Activity: Connect an MCP server to ellmer/chatlas (options from https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers below)
  • ArXiV: https://github.com/andybrandt/mcp-simple-arxiv
  • webpage screenshot: https://github.com/ananddtyagi/webpage-screenshot-mcp
  • stocky: https://github.com/joelio/stocky
  • fetcher: https://github.com/jae-jae/fetcher-mcp
  • git-ingest: https://github.com/adhikasp/mcp-git-ingest
  • github: https://arc.net/l/quote/bvfqahnx
  • context7: https://github.com/upstash/context7