What is a practical use case for this protocol?
Here's a useful one that I wrote:
https://github.com/anaisbetts/mcp-youtube
Claude doesn't support YouTube summaries. I thought that was annoying! So I added it myself, instead of having to hope Anthropic would do it
Thanks. Added to https://glama.ai/blog/2024-11-25-model-context-protocol-quic...
A few common use cases that I've been using is connecting a development database in a local docker container to Claude Desktop or any other MCP Client (e.g. an IDE assistant panel). I visualized the database layout in Claude Desktop and then create a Django ORM layer in my editor (which has MCP integration).
Internally we have seen people experiment with a wide variety of different integrations from reading data files to managing their Github repositories through Claude using MCP. Alex's post https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1861079762506252723 has some good examples. Alternatively please take a look at https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers for a set of servers we found useful.
Regarding the first example you mentioned. Is this akin to Django's own InspectDB, but leveled up?
Zed editor had just announced support for MSP in some of their extensions, publishing an article showing some possible use cases/ideas: https://zed.dev/blog/mcp