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MCP Apps: Extending the Frontier — Ido Salomon & Liad Yosef

Source: youtube.com
Author: AI Engineer
Date: Published Jul 30, 2026

Context

Apps lets a compatible AI assistant present an interactive interface alongside a tool's response. The presentation explains the mechanism: a tool links its result to an HTML resource, and the assistant's host application renders that resource in a . A user's click can then send an event back to the host, which controls the next action, such as requesting another tool call. This gives users a way to explore or act on information without expressing every interaction as another written prompt. Both the tool service and the host need to support the interface protocol for that exchange to work.

Terms in this piece · Glossary

MCP — The Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets any AI assistant plug into any tool or data source without custom integration code.
sandbox — An isolated environment where AI-generated code or agent actions run without being able to touch anything real.

Key quotes

“They don't want to be reduced to a textual database. They don't want to lose their brand identity in the process.”
Liad Yosef

“we partnered with Anthropic and OpenAI to create the official extension to MCP, which we call MCP apps”
Ido Salomon

“What if we could just take these UIs and just break them into atoms? And those atoms can be composed by my own personal assistant, right?”
Liad Yosef

“if I click on something in the Shopify's MCP app, then Shopify doesn't control my journey anymore. The host does.”
Liad Yosef

“With MCP apps you can write once and run it everywhere. And the future is looking bright.”

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