Springing into AI - Part 18: MCP Client - Playground
About In our previous posts, we have been using MCP Inspector as means to test out various capabilities of our developed Hobbits Inc MCP Server such as Elicitation , Sampling , Progress Notifications , Server Side Resources , Prompts . In this post we look at replacing Mcp Inspector with a MCP Client developed using Spring AI that would open it up for integration in real world applications. Project For the purpose of our playground, users would be interacting with our application via terminal. This is purely done to keep things simple from playground perspective (but can be easily extended to a shiny front end). In here, the terminal would be interacting with a MCP Client to carry out the user requests. The configured LLM in the MCP Client would be making decisions whether to invoke a particular tool or not based on the confidence in the correlation of user request recieved and the description of each tool that it is aware of. The LLM knows of these tools, as the Chat Clie...