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Leveraging the power of MCP servers

Leveraging the power of MCP servers - Claude Tutorial

From the course: Model Context Protocol (MCP): Hands-On with Agentic AI

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Leveraging the power of MCP servers

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- [Instructor] To leverage the power of MCPs in your own work it's useful to think of them as natural language interfaces to automation. Identify tasks you normally perform that can be automated, build MCPs that facilitate that automation and then plug them into an MCP client. In the exercise files, you'll find an example of this in an MCP I built called Project Documenter. This MCP takes the contents in any project folder and summarizes all of that content into a markdown file and then writes a README file for that project. Let me show you how it works in Claud. I have a project open, and as you can see it currently does not have a README file. I'll say, "Document the project" at this path, hit return, now, Claud first identifies file system as a possible tool here but I don't want to use file system so I'll say no. Then it correctly identifies Project Documenter so I'll allow that. If you look over here, it's now created a project.md file which is a complete list of all the code in…

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