Connect Claude to your own apps

Connect Claude to your own apps 31 May 2025 I’ve always wanted my own assistant, like JARVIS from Iron Man. Every year we get closer to JARVIS being possible, but we’re not there yet. Let me show you a simple workflow to create your own agentic AI. What's “agentic”? It runs in a loop, running tools and calling APIs, until it solves the task you gave it. MCPs suck (for now) There’s a lot of hype on X about MCPs, aka Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol. MCPs are servers that provide tools for AI assistants. These tools let the AI take actions such as browsing the internet, controlling your computer, or communicating with apps (e.g. Asana, Slack, Stripe) and even other AIs. You can use them in Claude Desktop, Raycast, VS Code, and many other clients. People have made thousands of MCPs. There’s only one problem though… they’re frustrating to use! Using MCPs in Claude Desktop requires editing claude_desktop_config.json . Raycast does it better, providing a keyboard-first polished UI fo ... Read full article.