Building MCP servers with VS Code — Level up your MCP
summary
Builds an agentic achievement tracker live in VS Code that actually works end to end: a local STIO server debuggable with breakpoints that exposes tools to track achievements and get achievements, elicitations surface a confirm/choice UI so the agent waits for human revision, MCP Apps return an HTML skill‑tree UI via a resource, and progress notifications update tool status. Servers move from long‑running SSE to stateless HTTP for scalable deployment, and distribution uses the new Agent Plugins spec; demo runs and will be open‑sourced.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Evolution of MCP
- 3:22Gamifying agent workflows
- 8:07Interaction design patterns
- 11:53Advanced server interactions
- 15:17Visualizing agent state
- 20:10Scaling with statelessness
- 22:58Distribution via plugins
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