Feb 24
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How can you move your MCP tools beyond plain text? How do you add interactive UI components directly inside chat conversations? This week on the show, Den Delimarsky from Anthropic joins us to discuss MCP Apps and interactive UIs in MCP. 👉 Links from the show: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/285/ Den is a member of the MCP Steering Committee and a Core Maintainer focusing on auth and security. He explains how MCP acts as a universal bridge, providing AI models with the real-time context they need. He shares insights on working with MCP Apps and moving beyond simple text to render web-based user interfaces directly in your chat window. Den previously worked on GitHub SpecKit, and we discuss taking advantage of spec-driven development and how to use "Skills" to remove the toil from your workflow. We also talk briefly about his podcast and his conversations about navigating careers in technology. This episode is sponsored by AgentField. Topics: - 00:00:00 -- Introduction - 00:02:17 -- Den's Background - 00:02:53 -- The Work Item Podcast - 00:06:55 -- Career Move to Anthropic - 00:10:24 -- What is Model Context Protocol (MCP)? - 00:11:39 -- MCP UI and MCP Apps - 00:16:17 -- Sponsor: AgentField - 00:17:13 -- Structuring MCP Tools - 00:24:52 -- Cloudflared & tunneling - 00:29:59 -- Reverse engineering with Ghidra MCP - 00:35:43 -- Connecting MCP tools - 00:43:10 -- Video Course Spotlight - 00:44:23 -- Spec-Driven Development & Context Management - 00:57:23 -- Leveraging Skills for Model Guidance - 01:02:51 -- What are you excited about in the world of Python? - 01:03:42 -- What do you want to learn next? - 01:07:14 -- How can people follow your work online? - 01:07:48 -- Thanks and goodbye 👉 Links from the show: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/285/ --- Download your free Python Cheat Sheet here: https://realpython.com/cheatsheet Free Python Skill Test with instant level + learning plan: https://realpython.com/skill-test Want to learn faster? Become a Python Expert with unlimited access to 5,000+ tutorials, videos, and exercises: https://realpython.com/start [** ACTUAL VIDEO-SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION TEXT GOES HERE **] 🐍 Become a Python expert with real-world tutorials, on-demand courses, interactive quizzes, and 24/7 access to a community of experts at https://realpython.com ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ 🐍 Start Here → https://realpython.com/start 🗺️ Guided Learning Paths → https://realpython.com/learning-paths 🎧 Real Python Podcast → https://realpython.com/podcast 📚 Python Books → https://realpython.com/books 📖 Python Reference → https://realpython.com/ref 🧑💻 Quizzes & Exercises → https://realpython.com/quizzes 🎓 Live Courses: https://realpython.com/live ⭐️ Reviews & Learner Stories: https://realpython.com/learner-stories ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰