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by sho_hn 411 days ago
Unlike llms.txt (which I think none of the major vendors have announced to be using/supporting, too, for that matter), there's currently no standard for AI assistants running a web search and discovering these end points yet, though, is there?

That means someone would have to jump through manual hoops to consume this.

Perhaps a needed bit of integration is a vendor that allows you to park a chat box on your website that knows how to call out into your MCP, so I can talk to your resume directly on your website. I assume this exists already, if not it'd be weird (it's not that hard to cobble together manually against the agent-ish APIs, after all).

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Discovery for MCP is still an unsettled question. An adjacent protocol, A2A, has proposed using /.well-known for discovery. At the rate things are moving this won't be a problem for too much longer.

But yes, currently, you still need to read the docs to know if/where on my server you can find an MCP endpoint.

Adding a link for A2A (https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-...)

Also I believe there are some open source directories and Anthropic themselves are planning to launch or have launched a directory, so an NPM for MCPs.