I like MCP a lot. It fixed the same kind of problem plugins fixed, just one layer down.
Before it, every app had its own way of connecting to your tools. Build a connection for one, rebuild it for the next. Same work, three times. (Sound familiar? Same story as the folder.)
Now it is one shape. You describe the connection once and any app that speaks it can use it.
Where it falls short, and I will be honest, setup is still rough for most people. Editing a config file scares off a lot of folks before they ever see it work. And nothing checks if someone else's MCP server is safe. You are trusting whoever wrote it.
That is actually why plugins matter to me. MCP gives you the connection. The plugin folder gives you a way to hand that connection to someone else without a phone call.
Short version: MCP is the wire. Plugins are the box you put the wire in.
What are your thoughts on MCP?
Good question @Talha.
I like MCP a lot. It fixed the same kind of problem plugins fixed, just one layer down.
Before it, every app had its own way of connecting to your tools. Build a connection for one, rebuild it for the next. Same work, three times. (Sound familiar? Same story as the folder.)
Now it is one shape. You describe the connection once and any app that speaks it can use it.
Where it falls short, and I will be honest, setup is still rough for most people. Editing a config file scares off a lot of folks before they ever see it work. And nothing checks if someone else's MCP server is safe. You are trusting whoever wrote it.
That is actually why plugins matter to me. MCP gives you the connection. The plugin folder gives you a way to hand that connection to someone else without a phone call.
Short version: MCP is the wire. Plugins are the box you put the wire in.
Have you built one yet?
yeah, have been used it in one of a project where its required and its quite solid.