893: Everyone Is Talking About MCP

Scott and Wes break down the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new open standard that gives AI agents secure, tool-like access to your dev environment. They cover how it works, why it’s a big deal for AI coding workflows, and real-world use cases like GitHub, Sentry, and YouTube.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:49 The lore of ICP.
Wes MCP Shirt.
03:09 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 03:33 What is MCP? 05:06 The steps of AI coding.
07:11 MCP hosts. 07:28 MCP clients. 07:35 MCP servers.
08:24 Why you might want to do this.
10:39 How this works in VS Code. 14:10 Wes built an MCP server.
SVGL.
14:57 Playwright. 17:24 Sentry’s implementation.
Building Sentry’s MCP with David Cramer.
18:54 YouTube implementation. 21:19 DaVinci Resolve implementation.
Smithery.
23:02 Postgres. 24:40 Transport protocols. 24:49 STDIO. 25:19 SSE. 25:32 Streaming. 26:24 Writing you own MCP server. 26:28 FastMCP. 27:00 Cloudflare. 28:01 Data validation. 28:47 Standard schema.
Episode 873.
29:27 Other parts of MCP.
29:35 MCP resources. 30:37 MCP prompts. 30:48 MCP roots.

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