Shaun Smith works on open-source agents and MCP at Hugging Face and maintains fast-agent. Publishing as evalstate, he develops tools that connect models to external capabilities and explains the transport and deployment choices behind those connections.[1][2][3]
Start with Building the Hugging Face MCP Server →
Links
GitHub Hugging Face 
X fast-agent Open Source Agents & MCP Maintainer · Hugging Face
Contributions
Connect assistants to the Hugging Face Hub
Smith coauthored Building the Hugging Face MCP Server with Julien Chaumond, Eliott Coyac and Abubakar Abid. Their account explains exposing Hub tools and Gradio applications through a shared endpoint with user-selected capabilities. It weighs persistent server connections against request-based responses and describes why the initial public deployment favored stateless, direct responses.[2]
Make agent workflows easy to inspect and compose
fast-agent supplies a command-line interface and Python toolkit for connecting models, tools and workflows. Its current documentation includes interactive shell use, skills, MCP connections and local-model configuration. Agent definitions and configuration live in files so they can be inspected and versioned. It also provides playback and passthrough models for developing the surrounding application code.[3]
Tools, writing & talks
Writing, research & talks
Start here
Building the Hugging Face MCP Serverhuggingface.coThe team’s explanation of transport options, customization and public deployment tradeoffs.
Read the design-choices section before changing a server’s transport. The examples connect protocol features to real connection-management costs; some familiarity with HTTP and MCP makes the deployment discussion easier to follow.
Coauthor with Julien Chaumond, Eliott Coyac and Abubakar Abid[2]
Tools
- Hugging Face MCP Serverhuggingface.co
The official endpoint and configurable server connecting assistants to Hub tools and Gradio applications.
Developer with the Hugging Face team[2][4]Original source - fast-agentgithub.com
A CLI and Python toolkit for composing models, MCP tools and agent workflows.