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In my uneducated experience MCP is nothing more than a really well structured prompt. You can call out tools for the agent or model to use in the instruction pr
by oooyay 1y ago
In my uneducated experience MCP is nothing more than a really well structured prompt. You can call out tools for the agent or model to use in the instruction prompt, especially for certain project. I define workflows that trigger for certain files being changed in Cursor and usually the model can run uninterrupted for a while.
- dragonwriter 1y ago> In my uneducated experience MCP is nothing more than a really well structured prompt. MCP isn't a prompt (though prompts are a resource an MCP server can provide). An MCP client that is also the direct LLM manager toolchain has to map the data from MCP servers tool/prompt/resource definition into the prompt, and it usually does so using prompt templates that are defined for each model, usually by the model provider. So the meaningful part of having a “really well-structured prompt” part isn't from MCP at all, just something that already exists that the MCP client leverages.