Intro · 3:13
Introduction
The feature that sets Claude apart.
- MCP makes Claude far more capable.
- Set it up properly.
- Practical demos.
| Without MCP | With MCP |
|---|---|
| Chat | Chat + tools |
Do this in your own tools, step by step. Ticks are saved on this device.
Key feature?
MCP.
Result?
More capability.
0:00 It chooses when to use each of these tools. And in this video, I'm going to show you exactly how to set this up. some example workflows that I use to do research, create content, generate thumbnails, all from the comfort of my chatbot LLM. And this is something that ChatGBT just doesn't have access to right now. Let's not waste any time. Let's begin setting it up. So, if you haven't already, you need to get Claude and not the web version of Claude.
0:46 What you need is the desktop version of Claude. So on your browser, just type in desktop download and this will take you to this page right here and then download it for whatever computer you have. I have a Mac. Once you have Claude downloaded, your screen will look a lot like this. And if you hover over tools and you click on it, you won't see anything down here. So Claude Sonnet 4 is an agent. Claude Opus 4 is an even more powerful agent.
1:11 They are agents out of the box. As soon as you download Claude, they are an agent. And an agent is just an AI that can use tools in a loop. So it isn't an automation, meaning if one thing happens, then this thing happens. When you chat with it, it will decide what tools to use. And these are all of the tools that it can use. When you're just now starting out on Claude, you won't see anything here, right?
1:35 And right now I deleted all of the tools that I normally have access to and we're going to be adding them. And you can theoretically have 200 to 300 different tools that your Claude agent can access every time you ask it a question or tell it to do something. You just need to understand how to give it access to the most powerful tools in the world. And for this we're going to be using the Docker MCP toolkit.
2:00 So we are going to go to docker.com and we are going to download the docker desktop for whatever computer you have. And again I have the Mac. So once we download docker our screen will look a little bit like this. And you're going to notice here that we have this MCP toolkit beta over here on the left. And here you see that we can now add MCP servers. Before we enable any servers, what we need to do is go to clients and we need to actually enable the cloud desktop.
2:23 So once I've enabled the cloud desktop, it'll say disconnect and that's exactly what you want. And then we can go back to servers. So the first tool that we're going to add is notion. So we're going to click on this plus sign and we're going to see here that it shows tools 19. All of these tools are basically subtools that the Docker MCP for Notion has access to. Let me explain. First, I want to explain
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