893: Everyone Is Talking About MCP

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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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