Introducing the Epic Workshop MCP

Model Context Protocol enables you as a developer to integrate directly with the AI tools that your users are using. I took advantage of this as an educator by integrating a Model Context Protocol server with the Epic Workshop app. This will help learners ask their AI-assisted code editors about the specific exercise they are working on.

To use this, you configure your editor with the following command:

npx -y @epic-web/workshop-mcp@latest

Here's what that configuration looks like in Cursor (check docs):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "epicshop": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@epic-web/workshop-mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

With that set up, you can simply ask your AI-enabled editor about your progress in the current exercise, and it will be able to compare your work-in-progress with the solution, giving you tips on how to get to the solution and answering any questions you have about the solution.

You can even have the AI quiz you on the material 🔥 Watch this.

MCP is pretty rad!!

P.S. The source code for the MCP server can be found here.