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Made a few comments:
- wrote 'a MCP Server' instead of 'an MCP Server'
- asked to adjust the photo of the tool picker to demonstrate selecting the GitHub and Linear toolkits to align with the walkthrough
- added MCP Clients to the Next Steps
Other than that, lgtm!
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| # Calling tools in 3rd party agents, apps, or IDEs with Arcade | ||
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| Tools enable your AI agents to perform actions on your behalf. For specific workflows and use cases, this may involve calling tools from multiple MCP servers. Arcade facilitates this by allowing you to create MCP Gateways to federate the tools from multiple MCP servers into a single collection for easier management, control, and access. For example, if your agent specializes in solving specific tickets in Linear, you may want to use GitHub, Slack and Linear tools in your agent, but not all of them at the same time. An MCP Gateway allows you to pick only the tools required for this workflow, and you can connect it to any MCP client, making it easy to port your agent to multiple platforms and IDEs, and event share it with other users. |
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| Tools enable your AI agents to perform actions on your behalf. For specific workflows and use cases, this may involve calling tools from multiple MCP servers. Arcade facilitates this by allowing you to create MCP Gateways to federate the tools from multiple MCP servers into a single collection for easier management, control, and access. For example, if your agent specializes in solving specific tickets in Linear, you may want to use GitHub, Slack and Linear tools in your agent, but not all of them at the same time. An MCP Gateway allows you to pick only the tools required for this workflow, and you can connect it to any MCP client, making it easy to port your agent to multiple platforms and IDEs, and event share it with other users. | |
| Tools enable your AI agents to perform actions on your behalf. For specific workflows and use cases, this may involve calling tools from multiple MCP servers. Arcade facilitates this by allowing you to create MCP Gateways to federate the tools from multiple MCP servers into a single collection for easier management, control, and access. For example, if your agent specializes in solving specific tickets in Linear, you may want to use GitHub, Slack and Linear tools in your agent, but not all of them at the same time. A MCP Gateway allows you to pick only the tools required for this workflow, and you can connect it to any MCP client, making it easy to port your agent to multiple platforms and IDEs, and even share it with other users. |
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| Create a coding agent using an MCP Gateway to call tools from multiple MCP servers. |
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| Create a coding agent using an MCP Gateway to call tools from multiple MCP servers. | |
| Create a coding agent using a MCP Gateway to call tools from multiple MCP servers. |
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| <GuideOverview.YouWillLearn> | ||
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| - Create an MCP Gateway |
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| - Create an MCP Gateway | |
| - Create a MCP Gateway |
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| Click the "Select Tools" button in the form to select the tools you want to include in the gateway. You can select tools from any MCP server available to the active project. For this example, we'll select the tools from the GitHub MCP server, as well as the tools from the Linear MCP server. Feel free to select any tools you want to include in your specific use case. | ||
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Can we update the image to show just GitHub and Linear selected, like this?
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I'd update the photo myself, but I don't know how to capture just the tool picker because it has rounded corners
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| Once you've selected the tools you want to include in the gateway, click the "Use N tools" button in the tool picker, and then click the "Create MCP Gateway" button to create the gateway. |
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| Once you've selected the tools you want to include in the gateway, click the "Use N tools" button in the tool picker, and then click the "Create MCP Gateway" button to create the gateway. | |
| Once you've selected the tools you want to include in the gateway, click the "Use tools" button in the tool picker, and then click the "Create MCP Gateway" button to create the gateway. |
| we recommend keeping the number of tools in a single MCP Gateway below 80. | ||
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| ### Connect the MCP Gateway to an MCP client |
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| ### Connect the MCP Gateway to an MCP client | |
| ### Connect the MCP Gateway to a MCP client |
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| Arcade MCP Gateways are compatible with any MCP client that supports: | ||
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| - The Streamable HTTP transport |
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| - The Streamable HTTP transport | |
| - Streamable HTTP transport |
| ### Try it out | ||
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| 1. Open the chat pane | ||
| 1. Ask the agent to do something! For example, "Check the latest linear issue assigned to me, then create a new GitHub branch, implement the fix and add tests, if all the tests pass, create a pull request and assign it to me" |
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| 1. Ask the agent to do something! For example, "Check the latest linear issue assigned to me, then create a new GitHub branch, implement the fix and add tests, if all the tests pass, create a pull request and assign it to me" | |
| 1. Ask the agent to do something! For example, "Check the latest linear issue assigned to me. Then, create a new GitHub branch, implement the fix, and add tests. If all the tests pass, create a pull request and assign it to me." |
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| ## Next Steps | ||
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| Learn more about [MCP Gateways](/home/mcp-gateways). |
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| Learn more about [MCP Gateways](/home/mcp-gateways). | |
| - Learn more about [MCP Gateways](/home/mcp-gateways). | |
| - Learn how to use MCP Gateways with: | |
| -- [Cursor](home/mcp-clients/cursor) | |
| -- [Claude Desktop](/home/mcp-clients/claude-desktop) | |
| -- [Visual Studio Code] (/home/mcp-clients/visual-studio-code) |
| ## Next Steps | ||
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| Learn more about [MCP Gateways](/home/mcp-gateways). | ||
| Build your own MCP servers with [arcade-mcp](/home/custom-mcp-server-quickstart). |
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| Build your own MCP servers with [arcade-mcp](/home/custom-mcp-server-quickstart). | |
| - Build your own MCP servers with [arcade-mcp](/home/custom-mcp-server-quickstart). |
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