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Products that do what I Built a MCP Server for Robot Operating System does
I've been experimenting with ROS (Robot Operating System) and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and noticed a gap: while there were some MCP servers for ROS, most were limited. They either only supported topic communication or had hard-coded topic names, which severely limited their reusability. To address this, I built a general-purpose MCP server for ROS that allows interaction with ROS topics, services, and actions -making it more flexible and extensible than previous approaches. A key design decision was enabling communication between the MCP server and a local ROS machine by simply…
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Cloud logging + visualization tools for robotic development
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Hi HN -- Since Anthropic announced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) last week [1], I've been excited about giving Claude new capabilities through my custom servers. But while MCP is powerful, implementing the protocol correctly requires a lot of low-level boilerplate code. I found myself wanting something like FastAPI - a high-level framework that would let me focus on building features, not servers. After some hacking, I'm sharing FastMCP: a Pythonic framework for building MCP servers. FastMCP uses decorators to transform normal functions into MCP tools, resources, templates, and prompts,…
2024 · github.com
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Hey, I'm Nick from Nutrient, I want to share our newly released MCP Server that enables document workflows using natural language — things like redacting, merging, signing, converting formats, or extracting data. While many MCP servers have traditionally been developer-focused, we recognized that the technology could be highly effective in promoting the adoption of tools that are often hidden from end-user interfaces. We’re really interested to see if this side of the protocol could continue to mature. One thing we struggled with was the inability to receive documents from the client (no…
2025 · github.com
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I built a zero-configuration tool for automatically exposing FastAPI endpoints as Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, open to collabs and contributions!
2025 · github.com
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Hi HN, I'm Gzuuus, the creator of ContextVM this is my first post here, hope you find it interesting! I started building ContextVM some months ago, this is an open protocol that runs the Model Context Protocol (MCP) over Nostr. In practice, it’s a transport for MCP that lets you expose remote servers without needing a domain, inbound ports, or OAuth, clients, and servers only need an outbound internet connection. The problem I ran into: When deploying a remote MCP server you can feel the pain. You usually need a domain name, a static IP, TLS certificates, port forwarding, and some way to…
Feb 2026
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Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) has made it easy to spin up servers that expose tools and data to LLMs. A lot of these MCP servers run locally because they need access to your files, shell, browser, etc. The problem: they typically run with the same privileges as your user. If a server is buggy, misconfigured, or prompt-injected, it can do anything you can do: read SSH keys, exfiltrate dotfiles, poke around in private repos, etc. Our research group is working on this by adding a security manifest (inspired by the Android app manifest) plus a local policy enforcement engine that…
Nov 2025 · guardiagent.com
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Hey HN! I’m Gui from deco (decocms.com). We’ve been using this tool internally as the foundation for a few customer AI platforms, and today we’re open-sourcing it as MCP Mesh. MCP is quickly becoming the standard for agentic systems, but… once you go past a couple servers it turns into the same problems for every team: - M×N config sprawl (every client wired to every server, each with its own JSON + ports + retries) - Token + tool bloat (dumping tool definitions into every prompt doesn’t scale) - Credentials + blast radius (tokens scattered across clients, hard to audit, hard to revoke) - No…
Dec 2025 · github.com
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Did you just wake up from a 20 year coma? Did you build a bunch of buzzword compliant web services back in the early 2000s and want all your SOAP and WSDL to be relevant again? Now you can put the smooth sheen of AI on your pile of angle brackets by exposing your SOAP-based web service as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
Jan 2026 · github.com
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2025 · github.com
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Recently I was trying to use an MCP server to pull data from a service, but hit a limitation: the MCP didn't expose the data I needed, even though the service's REST API supported it. So I wrote a quick CLI wrapper around the API. Worked great, except Claude Code had no structured way to know what my CLI does or how to call it. For `gh` or `curl` the model can learn from the extensive training data, but for a tool I just wrote, it was stabbing in the dark. MCP solves this discovery problem, but it does it by rebuilding tool interaction from scratch: server processes, JSON-RPC transport,…
Feb 2026 · github.com
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Author here. I built this after getting frustrated with Amazon Q and wanting a more developer-friendly way to interact with AWS infrastructure. It's a local MCP server that lets Claude safely access your AWS environment using your existing local credentials. I've tried it on cases like: - Visualize my networking setup - Prepare a thorough analysis of my AWS costs and give insights how to cut it - Find S3 buckets without encryption enabled and their total size And it works surprisingly well. Let me know what do you think!
2024 · github.com
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I’ve been building Canine for about 2 years now, and have slowly grown it to about ~1000 developers using it for deploying all sorts of apps / projects / etc. Amazingly, the whole thing is still able to run on a single 48GB Hetzner VPS. Think of it basically like Coolify, for Kubernetes. I previously posted about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44292103 Recently, we added MCP capabilities to canine, and I was shocked how well it worked. It basically is able to create services, cron jobs, databases, get the logs for these and redeploy. See it here:…
Apr 2026
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Hello HN, I built this because I wanted to give Claude Desktop access to my Notion workspace without running a flaky local Python script via stdio. This is a Node.js/Express implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that uses SSE (Server-Sent Events) for transport. It’s designed to be stateless and deployable as a container (I'm hosting it on Apify, but it works anywhere with Node). The Stack: TypeScript + Express @modelcontextprotocol/sdk Zod for input validation Bearer Auth for security (since it exposes an HTTP endpoint) Capabilities: It allows the LLM to search pages,…
Dec 2025 · github.com
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I built a simple multi user, multi board, Task/Kanban MCP server. I have been looking for something like this to manage development agents, but I wasn't seeing anything that felt like what I wanted. So I set down and decided to vibe code an alternative. While it was an experiment at first I have been using it daily for my personal development projects and I really think there are others who might be looking for exactly this. It's 100% a WIP, but it is also very usable. I have a demo instance running at https://mootasks.dev. If you find this interesting I'd appreciate a star.…
Apr 2026 · github.com
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Hi HN, I'm excited to share Latitude Agents—the first autonomous agent platform built for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). With Latitude Agents, you can design, evaluate, and deploy self-improving AI agents that integrate directly with your tools and data. We've been working on agents for a while, and continue to be impressed by the things they can do. When we learned about the Model Context Protocol, we knew it was the missing piece to enable truly autonomous agents. MCP servers were first thought out as an extension for local AI tools (i.e Claude Desktop) so they aren't easily hostable in…
2025 · latitude.so
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Hey folks, I've been building AI agents that need to talk to various APIs, and I got tired of writing custom integrations for every service. So I built the MCP-OpenAPI Server to solve this problem! It's a simple bridge that lets AI agents discover and use our existing OpenAPI endpoints through the Model Context Protocol. No need to write custom code for each service - just point it at the OpenAPI specs, choose which endpoints to expose, and you're good to go. What makes this different from other MCP servers is that it uses SSE transport instead of stdio, making it work well for multi-tenant…
2025 · github.com
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I’ve been building and using agents heavily lately. The Model Context Protocol ecosystem is growing insanely fast, but discovering and configuring new tools is still highly manual. Every time I needed to connect an agent to a new service, I had to browse registries, figure out the transport type, identify required env vars, and manually update "mcp.json" files. So I built MCPfinder. It aggregates servers from the official MCP registry, Glama, and Smithery (around 25,000 combined entries) into a deduplicated, ranked catalog. But the real twist is the DX: MCPfinder is itself an MCP server :D…
Apr 2026 · mcpfinder.dev
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MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets AI assistants check domain availability in real-time. Features: - Multi-source: Porkbun, Namecheap, RDAP, WHOIS - Price comparison across registrars - Social handle checking (GitHub, Twitter, npm, etc.) - Premium domain detection with pricing insights Works with any MCP-compatible client. Install: npx -y domain-search-mcp
Dec 2025 · github.com
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