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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