Hi @sumergoconicio
Thanks for question.
I am no MCP expert by any means and not really into all the details about how it works. I am more ok, I can do this with it or not and go straight to use cases and implementation.
When MCP first came out, I thought quite neat but it looks like you can only use it for yourself - if I was using it in cursor etc. and saw no real advantage in terms of how would build this into something that others could use and you could monetize.
As I mentioned in my post, I asked the question back in March as well as brought it up in one of the office hours sessions. So was glad to see that it is now available within Pickaxe.
Only annoying thing is if I had know about MCPs being an action, I would have purchased some additional actions on the last go around as I only have 3 per Pickaxe - all actions, so am a little restricted. 10 would be a good safe number to have.
So before the MCP option was available, if I wanted to send information to say a google sheet, I could connect it to a Make.com Scenario and have Make do the heavy lifting in the background. Then they introduced agents so that you could build out different scenarios for each agent to work on.
With the MCPs, they typically come with a number of tools / calls that you can use, so in the use case of connecting to a google sheet, you can now call the google sheet MCP where you can now send data to a google sheet, retrieve data, ask it questions like what is in Cell A2 of Sheet1 of Google Sheet “Contacts” etc.
Another example with Relevance AI - I could never get it to connect with the API, but now they have an MCP for each tool that you build. With the MCP, you can add in multiple tools to the same MCP, so for me, it makes thing simpler for sure.
Make.com now also have an MCP that you can run at the Org, Team or Scenario level, so that works well too. So you can build out your Make.com scenarios, hook up one action and now you can access all the scenarios you want to use by making a specific call - telling the Pickaxe what tool to use and for what use.
While typing this up, I connected the ElevenLabs MCP to a Pickaxe which allowed me to do the following:
- Text to Speech: Convert text into audio using different voice options.
- Speech to Text: Transcribe audio files into text.
- Sound Effects: Generate sound effects based on text descriptions.
- Voice Search: Search for existing voices in the ElevenLabs library.
- Voice Cloning: Create an instant voice clone using audio files.
- Audio Isolation: Isolate audio from a file.
- Conversational AI Agents: Create and configure custom conversational AI agents.
- Knowledge Base Management: Add knowledge bases to agents for improved responses.
- Phone Call Integration: Make outbound calls via Twilio using ElevenLabs agents.
- Voice Previews: Generate voice previews from text prompts.
- Add Generated Voices: Add generated voices to your voice library.
- List All Agents: Retrieve details about conversational AI agents.
I am still playing with it myself and finding out new ways to make things work together while keeping you in the Pickaxe environment.
Next step will be to try and build out my own MCP server - but have no idea what to call etc.
I hope this has helped answer yor question.