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.

• Welcome to Syntax!
• The lore of ICP.
  • Wes MCP Shirt.
• Brought to you by Sentry.io.
• What is MCP?
• The steps of AI coding.
  • MCP hosts.
  • MCP clients.
  • MCP servers.
• Why you might want to do this.
  • How this works in VS Code.
  • Wes built an MCP server.
    • SVGL.
  • Playwright.
  • Sentry’s implementation.
    • Building Sentry’s MCP with David Cramer.
  • YouTube implementation.
  • DaVinci Resolve implementation.
    • Smithery.
• Postgres.
• Transport protocols.
• STDIO.
• SSE.
• Streaming.
• Writing you own MCP server.
• FastMCP.
• Cloudflare.
• Data validation.
• Standard schema.
  • Episode 873.
• Other parts of MCP.
  • MCP resources.
  • MCP prompts.
  • MCP roots.

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