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Re:MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System by notatoad on Saturday June 28, 2025 @07:23PM (#44409007)
same as any other api function call in an app - because an app developer programmed it to call that function.
Re:MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System by brabel on Sunday June 29, 2025 @04:50AM (#44411381)
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 “.