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Show HN: Stop returning raw JSON from MCP servers, build rich inline UIs

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7 points by muhammad-shafat 3 days ago · 1 comment

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muhammad-shafatOP 3 days ago

I stumbled onto this capability while using the Spotify MCP App inside Claude. a fully functional, interactive playlist an dmusic player widget spin up inline, instead of a standard markdown list of text links. It turns out this is built on the official MCP Apps spec extension that Anthropic and OpenAI standardized a few months back. It lets your server declare a ui:// URI, which the host grabs and mounts inside a sandboxed iframee. Core mcp blew up overnight, but this extension still feels pretty underground. It makes me wonder if we're heading toward a weird shift where AI agents become the primary browsers of the web, and front-end dev becomes about building micro-widgets for LLMs instead of humans.

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