Mcp support

Feature Request
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Requested in Discord

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oh is this all an mcp server is? : https://github.com/ActiveCampaign/postmark-mcp

i could make something like that p easily pending demand. using the public api anyone else could too :slight_smile:

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this one is really needed

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tell me more about your desired use cases

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from the OP

The idea that jumps out to me right away as I’ve been porting over my notes for classes is collating todo’s with relevant context across all spaces or categories of spaces (or even implicit associations of ideas) into a tool(à la raycast) that can plug into your reminders and calendar apps.
Also, automatically populating a research question with a few web links when prompted to. Parsing through everything in a space to verify facts or do a sanity check on idea flow or suggest directions to explore.
All these things are already currently do-able by exporting the space as a zip and feeding that as context every time but an MCP server would make it very ergonomic to do via whatever existing setup a user has

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in the postmark example postmark-mcp/index.js at main · ActiveCampaign/postmark-mcp · GitHub they basically define a couple key tasks with params:

- sendEmail(to, subject, textbody, htmlbody, from, tag), sendEmailWithTemplate
- listTemplates
- getDeliveryStats

what are the kinopio equivalents?

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I think all the functionality that’s currently available through the API—like creating and reading cards—can be integrated into MCP. Then I could create and modify cards in Kinopio directly through Claude.

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check this it can fully operate blender
Blender MCP Demo: AI Prompting a dragon in a dungeon

Blender MCP and The Future Of Creative Tools - Siddharth Ahuja

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that’s a lot of functionality, what’s the mvp?

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also it would help if you told me about Your usecases. saying ‘do everything’ doesn’t help as much in determining whether this is worth doing, vs some solid practical scenarios of things that you would do w it :slight_smile:

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also weirdly, the folder structure in the postmark demo does not match the format that anthropic specifies in https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/desktop-extensions , nor does it package a ‘dxt’ file…

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Personally, what I need is:

  1. To simply create cards with the necessary parameters (color, tag, position on the canvas), and connect them so I can quickly structure large chunks of text.
  2. To allow MCP to read the cards, so it can summarize what I wrote—for example, yesterday—or give an overview of what’s written in a specific space I was working on (including being able to see when a card was created).
  3. Edit cards :melting_face:
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so CRUD on items would look like:

- createCard(name, x,y, etc)
- readCard
- updateCard
- deleteCard

same for boxes

one major wrinkle is api activity doesn’t update what you see if currently have a space opened. If this issue is required to be fixed in order to provide that live blender update like experience, this becomes a v huge project.

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You could add a sidebar notification saying ‘Changes have been made — refresh the page to see updates. or something like this

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if 8 more ppl say they’d use this feature and tell me specifically how they’d use it and what they’d use it for , then i’ll move this up in priority

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As someone who actively dislikes LLMs (for a wide variety of reasons around how unethical they are), I’m going to throw a vote against something like an MCP server. I like that Kinopio has no LLM stuff in it at all.

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i’ve since updated the api so that it’ll live update your space when that happens

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I’ll give this a longer answer cuz it might be handy to point someone to my current thinking on LLMs in the future.

I totally get why you dislike LLMs, overall I do too.

Kind of a unique feeling for new technology, is that it feels like LLMs and the discourse around them have so far been a net negative for humanity (high spam/slop generation, enormous environmental impact). I also have a low opinion of companies like openAI and anthropic - their leaders are supreme douchebags.

That said, from firsthand experience there are 2-3 useful and practical applications of the technology:

  1. making it easier for power-users to build glue between apps to create fancy IFTTT style workflows: ‘If i do x in one app, I want y to happen in another’
  2. I have a very specifically scoped text/code analysis or transformation question, handle the grunt work for me.
  3. answering questions that would take multiple searches to figure out: ‘I have a specific scenario x, how do I do y in a way that meets my specific needs’

The answers might not always be right of course.

All the other overly hyped stuff is mostly fake productivity, spam, or is shown to actively makes ppl stupider (e.g. ‘write emails for me’).

AI is most oppressive when it’s shoe-horned for fake use cases in places where it encourages self-defeating outcomes. e.g. a ‘write for me’ button in a writing/email app for serious communication or creativity.

The appeal of MCP is that:

  • regular users never see it. it’s only there for people who want it ,
  • it’s basically just a wrapper around the api that makes the api easier for bots to use. The api is meant to enable all kinds of programmatic access to kinopio. It enables use-cases I couldn’t anticipate.

The case against MCP is that:

  • the use cases are super niche, and could be accomplished by just using the api
  • it’s unclear whether it’s a technology that’s here to stay, or if it’s just an claude-only thing.
  • it adds complexity to the server
  • There are some, but very few, people who’ve expressed interest in it.
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