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		gunalx 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System I cannot really answer, but it seems you can just wrap mcp in a rest wrapper, as thqt is how open web ui seems to integrate mcp into its tooling..

moron4hire 10 days ago [–]

Anthropic's example of creating an MCP server is just wrapping MCP around a REST weather forecasting service.

Maybe it's just that agentic LLMs have created a lot of interest in being interoperable, whereas efforts like Open API just didn't have any carrot to warrant the stick other than "wouldn't it be nice".

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