Agent ready episode 2 with Stainless: auto-generating an MCP server & client
Blog post from Stytch
In the second episode of Stytch's "Agent Ready" video series, Reed McGinley-Stempel, CEO of Stytch, and Alex Rattray, CEO of Stainless, discuss the process and challenges of building scalable toolsets for AI agents, focusing on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for server and client authentication. They highlight the limitations of current approaches to MCP server construction, such as the inefficiency of naively generating tools from OpenAPI specifications and the scalability issues of manually creating high-value tools. The conversation delves into the benefits of using MCP servers, particularly for simplifying user interactions with APIs, and the importance of crafting intentionally AI-accessible APIs to facilitate agentic actions. The discussion also emphasizes the need for OAuth in API integration and explores the potential for MCP to streamline processes within various applications, alongside Stainless's role in generating MCP servers tailored to specific use cases.
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