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Tasos V

MCP Servers - Anyone else in the rabbit hole?

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Found about MCP servers earlier this year, but only the last few weeks im getting my hands dirty with them. Im doing things with Typescript and Im struggling with integrating custom clients with mcp servers. Is anyone going through the same path?

PS: Im not asking about building an MCP server or connecting it to Claude Desktop, Cursor or something like that. That is easy, and Youtube is packed with videos about it. Im talking about custom frontends/clients and how to easily integrate them with MCP servers.

Thanks!!

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Hey! Totally hear you - working with MCP servers at the integration level (especially with custom clients) can get tricky fast. My team went through the same thing — not just spinning up an agent, but making it actually work inside a custom frontend or browser extension.


What helped us:

– Agents + MCP = real actions across Gmail/Slack/Notion

– Keep your frontend logic lightweight

– Browser extensions + context → game changer


We built all that into FuseBase AI Agents - MCP-powered, runs inside portals & your browser.


🧠 Explore how we did it, just launched today https://www.producthunt.com/posts/fusebase-ai-agents

Tasos V

Interesting, but i was not looking for an app solution. I was looking for some insight from a developer's perspective to do it myself. Not sure where in the app you shared MCP's are used (cant see anything about them in the UI either). Anyways good luck with the launch.

@cryptosymposium Thank you for your response. Yes, at the moment you can extend the functionality of our agents through ready-made MCP servers, such as mcp.composio.dev/ or https://mcp.pipedream.com/. We are also actively working on enabling users to deploy their own custom MCP servers, with the ability to create custom agents. If you’re interested, we’ll be happy to keep you updated. Once it’s ready, our developers will gladly share information and tips on creating your own MCP server.

Anthony Cai

Hi Tasos, I’ve also been exploring MCP servers recently and ran into similar challenges when trying to integrate custom clients using TypeScript. I agree that most tutorials focus on setting up the server or connecting popular clients, but there’s little guidance on building fully custom frontends. One approach that helped me was to deeply understand the MCP protocol specs and then create a lightweight abstraction layer in TypeScript to handle communication. It’s a bit of a learning curve, but once you have that layer, integrating your custom client becomes much easier. Would love to hear if you’ve found any useful resources or patterns along the way!

Dan Tolbert

I've had the same thoughts! Everything I keep coming back to makes the A2A protocol (https://a2a-mcp.org/) look more attractive for end-client usage versus developer usage.

I think MCP is going to be the "Websocket" where endusers install agents to their Siri / Ok-Google / Cortana , etc...