MCP UI: Extending the frontier — Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon, MCP Apps
Summary
Chat interfaces are no longer limited to walls of text. In this talk, Liad Yosef and Ido Salomon explain how MCP Apps turn tools into interactive UI inside hosts like ChatGPT, Claude, VS Code, Cursor,
Transcript Excerpt
[music] >> Okay, hi everyone. We built this talk well not really yesterday we built this talk this morning and it might already be out of date. I'm Eda Solomon. I'm the creator of MCPUI, co-creator of MCP apps and maintainer. Also creator of Agent Craft if you were on the previous session. I'm Liad. I work with Eda on MCPUI, co-created the MCP app spec with Eda and I'm also co-founder of Ergo Labs which is like human agentic interfaces a company. So MCP apps are all around us. You might not even realize it but the interactive applications you see today in ChatGPT, Claude and others are actually based on MCP and the MCP app spec. But why do we need MCP apps and what's MCP apps? I mean you heard David this morning talk about it a little bit. We used to text, we used to MCP tools sending text…