893: Everyone Is Talking About MCP

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntax. In today's episode, we're talking about MCP. In fact, a lot of people, yeah, MCP, you know MCP, you know me, all that stuff. A lot of people on Twitter have been talking about MCP. A lot of people on YouTube have been talking about MCP. This is a thing that is seemingly,
0:23.0	I would say having a moment right now. So I figured we would, we would talk about it. Now,
0:28.0	what it is in AI topic, so those of you who are AI adverse, I think you should still know
0:33.5	what this thing is. You should still take the time to understand it. But it is going to be a topic of
0:38.7	AI. I know that is upsetting for some people.
0:48.9	Wes has created an ICP t-shirt that says MCP, which is very funny.
0:58.1	Oh, that is great.
1:03.5	I don't know how much longer I'll laugh at the AI-generated t-shirt designs, but that is funny.
1:04.4	I seep.
1:05.0	Yeah.
1:05.7	Maybe for, I don't know, maybe the Europeans don't know.
1:08.7	Can you give us the lore of what ICP is?
1:12.3	Well, healing from Detroit, Michigan, my stomping grounds, yes.
1:17.1	The insane clown posse or ICP, yeah, they're an American hip-hop duo.
1:22.8	Yeah, basically it's like, I don't really know how to describe the music other than just
1:28.9	kind of not great it's rap music in a way but it's rap music it's like a very specific type
1:35.5	of rap music man I don't know the best way to describe it other than just being kind of like
1:40.7	it's it's like a lifestyle like the people that people that listen to ICP are juggalo's,
1:47.4	right? Just go search for a juggalo documentary. Yeah. It's a cool world. It's a cool world.
1:53.1	Hold on. I actually have an ICP story, Wes, related to web development. Lay it on me.
1:58.1	Yeah. So I worked for an agency in Michigan for a long time, and it was a small agency.
2:03.4	And we used to bid on projects all the time.
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