They say it's the USB-C for APIs to LLMs
Will there be an MCP Block soon?
Curious
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Hey @mascaritas - we probably won't build an MCP block, but we will be allowing AI queries to consume MCP Server tools, and they potentially exposing Retool Resources (or other data primitives) as MCP servers for consumption in other MCP clients (for example, in Claude).
Curious what you're looking to build with MCP + Retool?
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This is great news. Thanks for your reply.
What I was imagining would be a block that can write queries to an api based on natural language input, very much like you have it already in the built in the "edit app" environment
If this block had some kind of memory or vector storage. and also remembered the error messages and which queries run through and which not, it would self learn how to communicate. with an api and would speed up the process imensly since user coud use "fuzzy queries"
I hope you get the idea of this use case. Curious to know what you think about it. Maybe there's even something that was already built that goes in this direction.
Actually, I imagine the MCP to be something like this, like an API on top of an API that can be queried in natural language.
Any outlook on which self-hosted stable version the AI Actions will include MCP capabilities?
Our use-case would revolve around enabling users to query a database through natural language
- Another AI Action should be summarizing the data.
- The query output should also be available for the user to download
No promises, @seppi, but I anticipate our Q3 2025 release will contain beta versions of the various AI tooling that we're currently building out. 