Exposing gRPC Services as MCP Servers
summary
Redpanda Data presents a plugin that generates MCP tool specs from Protobuf RPCs so gRPC APIs expose validated MCP endpoints with no manual glue code, and a demo shows creating a serverless cluster and topic end-to-end. Generated code targets Go only and runs in-process or forwarded to a gRPC client. Limits include oneOf/anyOf incompatibility with OpenAI, dynamic maps and deep recursion get coerced to strings, and planned work on proto-validate and custom naming.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00MCP and Red Panda Data
- 1:03MCP tool calling
- 4:40MCP standardization
- 8:31gRPC for MCP servers
- 10:36Prodigy Gen Go MCP
- 13:11Live MCP with gRPC
- 15:00LLM pitfalls and fixes
- 17:05Future MCP improvements
- 18:52Q&A
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