[tedtimbrell]

Im quite surprised they’re actually going with hosted mcp versus just implementing the mcp server locally and interacting with the api

[nknj]

you can use local mcp servers with the agents sdk: https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/mcp/

responses api is a hosted thing and so it made most sense for it to directly connect to other hosted services (like remote mcp servers).