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Part of the reason AI agents and MCP work is because AI can programmatically at runtime determine what plug-ins to use. Without the AI part, how does the host a

Part of the reason AI agents and MCP work is because AI can programmatically at runtime determine what plug-ins to use. Without the AI part, how does the host app know when to call a MCP server function?

notatoad 1y ago
same as any other api function call in an app - because an app developer programmed it to call that function.
- brabel 1y ago
  That only works for the MCPs your app knows about, which is not that great. The usefulness of a plugin system like MCP is that an app can automatically use it. But MCPs are literally just a function, with some metadata about what it does and how to invoke it. The only thing generic enough to figure out how to use a function given only this metadata seems to be an LLM. And not even all of them, only some support “toll calling “.
baq 1y ago
Same way it would call any other api: exactly when it was programmed to.