The article discusses the author's experience with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which simplifies task execution via integration with language models. The author initially found language models unengaging until MCP's capabilities were explored, revealing the potential for complex tasks using minimal code. The author successfully created a Bash shell server that performs various commands and transforms file formats. While the author appreciates the utility of this integration, they caution about the inherent security risks of using such powerful tools unchecked, emphasizing the necessity of oversight in command execution.
My MCP "server" came to all of 50 lines of code... Ask it to describe all the files in a directory - it corrected a spelling mistake I made in the path!
This looks and feels like the future of the shell. That said, in my 33rd year of Bash, let's acknowledge how profoundly dangerous such a tool could be at scale.
Once MCP enters the chat to give them a few tools, their conversation becomes interesting again.
MCP looks and acts as though it has been designed without any thought to security or bad actors. It's simple, clear, and very easy to get started with MCP.
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