alt Hacker Newsit's straightforward to spin up a custom MCP wrapper around any API with whatever access controls you want
the only time i reach for official MCP is when they offer features that are not available via API - and this annoys me to no end (looking at you Figma, Hex)
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theshrike79 • yesterday at 3:38 PM
That’s what we’re doing, but it’s annoying. Why can’t they just let us limit access for the official MCP easily?
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Indeed, ever since MCPs came out, I would always either wrap or simply write my own.
I needed to access Github CI logs. I needed to write Jira stories. I didn't even bother glancing at any of the several existing MCP servers for either one of them - official or otherwise. It was trivial to vibe code an MCP server with precisely the features I need, with the appropriate controls.
Using and auditing an existing 3rd party MCP server would have been more work.