Category: OpenAI

Integrate MCP Tools with AI Agents – Local MCP server

I recently wrote this article Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent which illustrates how to configure tools and an AI Agent to call those tools.  In that article there was no Model Context Protocol (MCP) capability utilized.  MCP provides the following benefits when compared to integrating custom tools directly from code. Dynamic tool discovery […]

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Integrate MCP Tools with AI Agents – Remote MCP server

I recently wrote this article Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent which illustrates how to configure tools and an AI Agent to call those tools.  In that article there was no Model Context Protocol (MCP) capability utilized.  MCP provides the following benefits when compared to integrating custom tools directly from code. Dynamic tool discovery […]

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Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent

Before learning what I discovered while integrating tools into an AI Agent, I was a bit perplexed regarding how the LLM was able to determine which tool to use and even which tools are available for use.  Well, how it works is not a mystery, it is clearly described in the code.  In this post […]

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