I added a first-party MCP server to my API. Here is what AI coding assistants can now do.

I added a first-party MCP server to my API. Here is what AI coding assistants can now do. Most developers who use AI coding assistants have noticed the same gap: the assistant can write code to take a screenshot, but it cannot actually take one. That sounds like a small thing. But the more you use AI assistants for real work, the more that limitation shows up. You are building a web app. You want to QA a UI change. You ask the assistant to check what a page looks like on mobile. It writes you code. You run the code. You look at the result. You describe what you see. The assistant responds. That is a lot of steps for something that should take five seconds. What MCP is Model Context Protocol is an open standard published by Anthropic for connecting AI assistants to external tools. It gives any MCP-compatible assistant (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others) the ability to call tools natively, as part of a conversation, without any custom integration on your end. Think of it like