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Stop Building MCP Servers. Use a URL Instead.

Stop Building MCP Servers. Use a URL Instead.

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Every time you want your LLM to interact with an external API via MCP, you write something like this: import { McpServer } from " @modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/mcp.js " ; const server = new McpServer ({ name : " my-api " , version : " 1.0 " }); server . tool ( " listUsers " , " List all users " , { page : z . number () }, async ({ page }) => { const res = await fetch ( `https://api.example.com/users?page= ${ page } ` ); const data = await res . json (); return { content : [{ type : " text " , text : JSON . stringify ( data ) }] }; }); // ... repeat for every endpoint // ... handle auth forwarding // ... deploy somewhere // ... maintain forever For ONE API. Now multiply that by every API you want to connect. There's a better way FlashMCP is a hosted gateway that does all of this automatically. Your entire config: { "mcpServers" : { "my-api" : { "url" : "https://flashmcp.dev/api.example.com" } } } Done. FlashMCP: Auto-discovers the OpenAPI spec (via apis.guru, HTTP Link headers, or .w

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