Designing for AI Agents: MCP

Presentation byJessica Kerr

We want our software to be easy for people to use. That means building a great UI. Now that people work with AI agents, we need our software to be easy for agents to use. That means building a great MCP. Model Context Protocol servers give AI agents fingers to feel around and act in the world, one tool at a time.

In this session, I’ll share design considerations from the Honeycomb.io MCP. I’ll contrast MCP design with human UX and software APIs, then discuss ways to tell whether the MCP is effective in production.

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