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Resources: Building the Next Wave of MCP Apps
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MCP Developers Summit, San Francisco
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Shaun Smith
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May 2025
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llmindset.co.uk github.com/evalstate x.com/llmindsetuk
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Resources: Building the Next Wave of MCP Apps
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MCP Developers Summit, San Francisco
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Shaun Smith
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May 2025
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llmindset.co.uk github.com/evalstate x.com/llmindsetuk
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Tools

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LLMs are good at ad-hoc integration

Simple for MCP Server Developers to add to Context with Tool Descriptions and Results

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Tools require minimal coordination between MCP Server Developers and Client Application builders.

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Tools don't solve the Context problem

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Even simple descriptions can easily consume 100-200 tokens per Tool.

LLMs can Get Lost in Multi-turn Conversation

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  1. find papers on the kazakh language
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Sonnet 3.7: 20 Runs - 47% longer, 89% more tokens

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https://hf.co/papers/2505.06120

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Tools as a Conversation Turn

Tool results aren't like traditional API responses: they become the next turn in a conversation with the Assistant.

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Some UX patterns emerging

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We need to think about semantics not just data transfer...

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What do I do with this content?

Client apps ask:

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A Closer look at Resources

Is Textual or Binary data

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Prompts - User Intent

Not just instruction templating: a precise way to inject task context. Especially helpful if we know User task intent.

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Using and Embedding Resources

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For example

MCP Servers that provide language specific capabilities such as Linting information as subscribable resources.

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Example - In-Context Learning for Code Maintenance

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Resource Features and Sampling

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🔄 Subscribable

weather://san-francisco/current
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URI schemes enable MCP Server Developers and Client Application builders to coordinate expectations and share understanding

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Sharing Semantic Expectations

URI schemes allow MCP Server developers and Client Application builders to share semantic contracts with each other.

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Example: Rich UI Client Libraries

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URI Schemes

Using known URI schemes, MCP Server and Host Application Developers can share:

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This is useful for both generic applications (e.g. User Interaction Patterns, Sorting/Filtering datasets) as well as Domain Specific implementations.

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Summary

Resources provide semantics, not just data transfer - they tell us what content is, who it's for, and how to handle it

URI schemes enable coordination between MCP Server developers and - Client apps - sharing semantic contracts for advanced features

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github.com/evalstate : x.com/llmindsetuk

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  1. LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation : https://hf.co/papers/2505.06120
  2. mcp-ui https://github.com/idosal/mcp-ui
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  3. PulseMCP Video demonstrating ICL, Dynamic Resource Generation and prompt-server: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvFIo-qSwLU
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Thank you

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