REST-based MCP
2025-06-20 20:35:30 +01:00 by Mark Smith
Me and Gemini spent a few hours going over MCP earlier. I asked loads of questions, read lots of documentation and examples, and it became quite clear that MCP is basically just a meta layer on front of REST, which could very easily just be implemented in REST. Gemini of course was very bullish on MCP.
Gemini then had the genius idea of a new protocol, called "REST based MCP". It‘s absolutely genius. And so we wrote a specification.
Behold the specification for REST-based MCP, and if you are curious about how it all went down, then have a skim through the full chat thread, which I think is quite funny. #