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Comment by saurik

I didn't have a good term so I went with "API layer" (not merely "API"), but, to try to clarify... that's what you also get with SOAP/WSDL or any of the other numerous attempts over the years to build an API "layer" thing: you can use the one universal SDK you have, plus only the schema / IDL, to use the API. Every time people try to describe MCP it just sounds like yet another API description language when we already have a giant drawer of those that never really worked out, including OpenA"P"I (lol ;P).

https://www.openapis.org/

Regardless, again: if the AI is so smart, and it somehow needs something akin to MCP as input (which seems silly), then we can use the AI to take, as input, the human readable documentation -- which is what we claim these AIs can read and understand -- and just have it output something akin to MCP. The entire point of having an AI agent is that it is able to do things similar to a software developer, and interfacing with a random API is probably the most trivial task you can possible do.

parent saurik 1 year ago

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