What are MCP Apps? Building Apps that Run on Claude & ChatGPT
You ask your AI assistant for insights and get a wall of text back but you wanted a chart, or a dashboard you can filter. MCP Apps adds a UI layer to MCP so your server can render interactive dashboards, forms, and visualizations right inside the conversation. MCP Apps is an extension to the core MCP specification (inspired by MCP-UI and the OpenAI Apps SDK) that adds a UI layer to MCP. Instead of returning a wall of text, your MCP server returns an entire HTML mini-app the host renders inside the conversation: interactive dashboards, forms, visualizations, and real-time results. Read the Blog: https://go.aws/3W07n03 Follow AWS Developers! 🆇 X: https://go.aws/3Vzcp3C 💼 LinkedIn: https://go.aws/477HaPG 0:00 Wall of Text vs Interactive UI 1:12 The 4 Building Blocks 2:45 Building the UI Resource (Sales Form) 4:55 Linking the Tool to the UI 5:47 The Host (Claude Desktop) 6:19 The View: A Sandboxed iframe 7:22 Host-View Messaging & Handshake 8:55 App-Only Tools 10:29 Chart Dashboard with Chart.js 12:11 PDF Report App & Downloads 13:04 Deploying to AWS AgentCore 13:48 Wrap-Up #AWS #MCPApps #ModelContextProtocol