MCP Support in Kagi Assistant

etwas

Adding support for a number of Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers to Kagi Assistant would greatly increase its usefulness by giving it the ability to interact with outside services.

I could see this feature be implemented as a sort of plugin system where a user can choose ones to activate from a list of MCP servers and configure them individually with a nice interface (i.e. not just writing it into a json file as env variables), depending on what the specific MCP servers need. I'm thinking of something akin to Google's integration of their own products into Gemini.
This would provide a nicer user experience than how most people use MCP servers, through software like cursor, windsurf and the like locally on the user's device. For MCP servers which allow interaction with something like a user's own grafana or gitlab, this would of course need quite a bit of trust in Kagi, since there would be API keys in the configs stored and used by Kagi.

Kagi Assistant would be given access to these MCP servers, using them after user confirmation to do so.

Gaeilgeoir

Would this be implemented with the Assistant API as well?

Would you be able to have a coding assistant, capable of interacting with Cursor directly through an API?

etwas

Gaeilgeoir Would this be implemented with the Assistant API as well?

One could probably think of a way to implement this with the Assistant API.
Thing is that you want/need user confirmation for execution of MCP Actions. Uncertain how that could be implemented nicely.

Gaeilgeoir Would you be able to have a coding assistant, capable of interacting with Cursor directly through an API?

That is more difficult and probably out of scope. MCP Servers tend to interact with other web apps or - if running locally on your own device (which in this case they would not be) - with stuff through applications installed on your PC. Cursor does not have an MCP Server itself and does not provide APIs to access your code from the outside.
Also, Cursor is not really something that outside services/things interact with directly on their own and without direct user action. It is more of a framework that allows you to interact with outside things which then in turn can change things while you see that. That's what Cursor is for.

Gaeilgeoir

etwas I see, thank you for explaining. I'm still relatively new to the MCP, and I haven't had first-hand experience wit Cursor, but have heard good things about it.

What you're describing sounds great. Apps I use, like Anytype, recently started supporting MCP, and having Assistant work with them would be a big productivity boost.

Remich

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking about this. I've been doing a lot of experimenting with various MCP servers for work. One that I noticed but haven't tried allows an AI to build up information about the user that can be included in context for future queries without the user having to specify it. It would be nice if there was a way, via MCP or otherwise, for the assistant to "learn" things about me that it could then use when answering future queries in new chat threads.

jameslong

+1, I love the newer Kagi Assistant UI and MCP support would easily let me justify staying on Ultimate.

gadielrangel

MCPs and Tool calling for assistant

The user can use any MCP server to do context engineering and augment the quality of their prompts. An example of this feature is claude.ai, and any coding IDE.

LosDosTres

Agree this would be a great add. Mistral added this capability to Le Chat a few weeks back - https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/393572-configuring-a-custom-connector