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Yeah, I had more luck with just giving an ai the openapi spec and letting it figure everything out. I like a lot about MCP (structure, tool guidance, etc), but couldn't it just have been a REST API and a webserver?



I think people often think of their specific use-case and tend to forget the bigger picture. MCP does not force one transport or the other and that is great—use any transport you want as long as it uses JSON RPC as the payload.

The two built in transports are also extremely minimalistic and for SSE transport use regular HTTP—no need for web sockets or other heavier dependencies because SSE events are lightweight and broadly supported.




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