[jngiam1]

It's really messy now. ChatGPT in particular makes it really hard; it turns out that Custom GPTs with actions can do pretty well, if you bridge MCP tools into actions; but setting any of these up is a pita.

The LLMs are also really bad at generating correct code for OAuth logic - there are too many conditions there, and the DCR dance is fairly complicated to get right.

Shameless plug: we're building a MCP gateway that takes in any MCP server and we do the heavy lifting to make it compatible with any client on the other end (Claude, ChatGPT - even with custom actions); as a nice bonus it gives you SSO/logs as well. https://mintmcp.com if you're interested.

[oezi]

Why just a gateway? Why not a serverless way to host tools?

[jngiam1]

+1 many tools can be run stateless / have state in a external db, and we have ways to support running that efficiently as well.

[cyberax]

It looks great, but it's yet another service. I believe that the infrastructure must be as simple as possible.

Have you considered adding a stand-alone service? Perhaps using the AGPL+commercial license.

[jngiam1]

We do have self-hosted options, and are still thinking through OSS strategies. If you've suggestions on that angle, would love to learn / read more.