Matt: MCP Everywhere

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. (The joke is the S in MCP stands for security, but that’s another post.) They say to think of it like “like a USB-C port for AI applications” because it allows interoperability between AI chatbots and other tools. Here’s some of the MCP stuff happening across the Automattic solar system:

• Core WordPress now has an MCP Adapter that uses a new Abilities API to do CRUD and more operations across WordPress.
• Woo’s core MCP is coming in version 10.3 in early October, though Lawrence Sinclair already spun one up on Github.
• Here’s how to set up Clay’s MCP so your AI can ask things like “Who are my contacts at Google that I haven’t spoken to in 6 months?”
• Beeper’s MCP implementation lets you query your entire message history across iMessage (on MacOS), WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Instagram, and many more with natural language.
• Day One has a community MCP implementation from Kevin Davinson.

When nerds start connecting things, interesting stuff happens; that’s been my entire career, so while none of these have made it into a critical daily workflow for me, I’m curious to see what people come up with.