WEBVTT 00:00.200 --> 00:06.880 And now, as it says, we are going to create our agent using these tools. 00:07.440 --> 00:13.760 So you may remember that when using OpenAI agents SDK instructions is what they call the system prompt. 00:13.960 --> 00:18.160 So we're going to say you browse the internet to accomplish your instructions. 00:18.160 --> 00:25.760 You are highly capable of browsing the internet independently to accomplish your task, including accepting 00:25.760 --> 00:29.880 all cookies and clicking not now as appropriate to get the content that you need. 00:31.400 --> 00:33.520 If one website isn't fruitful, try another. 00:33.560 --> 00:36.000 Be persistent until you've solved your assignment. 00:36.040 --> 00:38.880 Try different options and sites as needed. 00:39.240 --> 00:42.480 Okay then, I've got this as before. 00:42.480 --> 00:50.440 So this is going to create an MCP server, an MCP client, and an MCP server for file management file 00:50.440 --> 00:52.480 parameter passing in the file parameters. 00:52.680 --> 00:55.120 And then the same with the playwright parameters. 00:55.120 --> 01:00.400 So we now have a bunch of these different, uh, sets of tools. 01:00.440 --> 01:03.120 I'm using a parameter cache tools list. 01:03.280 --> 01:08.440 And as, uh, as OpenAI explains in their documentation, that just means that every time you call an 01:08.440 --> 01:12.480 agent, it's not going to re go and reestablish the tools, but it will remember them. 01:12.480 --> 01:17.240 So that's a sort of a best practice if you're using a service where the tools aren't going to change 01:17.560 --> 01:18.240 all the time. 01:18.840 --> 01:21.080 So uh, we're then going to create an agent. 01:21.080 --> 01:22.960 You remember this agent? 01:23.200 --> 01:25.800 Uh, we give it a name investigator. 01:25.960 --> 01:29.160 We give it some instructions, which is the system prompt. 01:29.160 --> 01:30.160 We give it a model. 01:30.160 --> 01:31.680 We'll use GPT four and mini. 01:32.120 --> 01:33.160 And this is new. 01:33.720 --> 01:35.640 Lo and behold, we're not we're not passing in. 01:35.640 --> 01:38.240 We could just pass in the tools that we already got earlier on. 01:38.240 --> 01:39.600 But we're not going to do that. 01:39.640 --> 01:46.480 We're going to pass in these MCP servers that we have, uh, that we've created one for files and one 01:46.480 --> 01:52.320 for browser, and we are passing them in as our MCP servers to use right here. 01:53.280 --> 01:57.440 And then with trace investigate. 01:57.440 --> 02:00.640 So, so, uh, we're setting up a trace called investigate. 02:00.680 --> 02:03.680 We will then call runner run. 02:03.960 --> 02:05.560 Uh, if you remember, run and run. 02:05.560 --> 02:06.960 It seems so long ago that we did this. 02:06.960 --> 02:13.000 But runners run, which is the OpenAI agents SDK way of sending a prompt to an agent. 02:13.240 --> 02:20.200 I'm going to say find a great recipe for banoffee pie and then summarise it and write it to banoffee. 02:22.240 --> 02:24.080 And print the final output. 02:24.120 --> 02:24.720 What do you think? 02:24.760 --> 02:30.520 Is this is it going to be this simple to have hooked up two MCP servers, one for browsing the web, 02:30.520 --> 02:35.520 and it's going to try and run it in a browser and one for writing a file. 02:35.720 --> 02:40.240 So it's off and running and it's thinking about what it's going to do. 02:40.360 --> 02:41.800 And up comes a browser. 02:42.640 --> 02:45.000 I can see it's looked for banoffee pie down there. 02:45.680 --> 02:47.760 We'll give it some time to think it through. 02:49.520 --> 02:50.480 And there we go. 02:50.480 --> 02:51.440 It's finished. 02:52.480 --> 02:57.800 It has, uh, announced it's created a markdown file for the banoffee pie recipe. 02:57.840 --> 02:58.960 Do you know what banoffee pie is? 02:58.960 --> 02:59.440 If you don't? 02:59.480 --> 03:00.320 It's delicious. 03:00.360 --> 03:00.600 It's. 03:00.640 --> 03:01.760 I think it's English. 03:01.960 --> 03:06.240 And, uh, hopefully this this, uh, recipe will give you a good way to do it. 03:06.720 --> 03:09.280 Uh, and, uh, there we go. 03:09.320 --> 03:10.840 We've got our banoffee pie recipe. 03:10.920 --> 03:16.040 It got there, of course, by surfing the web and by writing files. 03:16.040 --> 03:22.080 And it did that by spawning two different processes on my computer. 03:22.080 --> 03:24.760 One of them was an NTP server for file management. 03:24.760 --> 03:28.000 One of them was an MCP server for browser management. 03:28.000 --> 03:31.360 It spawned them by running these commands for browser. 03:31.360 --> 03:35.520 It was running node for this and for the file management. 03:35.920 --> 03:40.400 It was also running node with with this server file system. 03:40.400 --> 03:44.920 So it ran both of those programs and then it communicated to them. 03:44.920 --> 03:49.320 But it did so just by providing tools to the LM to select from. 03:49.320 --> 03:50.680 So all of that happened. 03:50.720 --> 03:52.720 It followed this entire workflow. 03:52.840 --> 03:57.880 And if we look in my sandbox directory, no surprise there is indeed a banoffee. 03:58.920 --> 04:05.120 And if we bring that up, we have a banoffee pie recipe that has been written to my hard drive through 04:05.280 --> 04:13.160 the MCP server file tools after searching the web using a browser that it spawned on my computer. 04:13.640 --> 04:20.760 And that is our first our inaugural use of a couple of MCP servers running locally. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.480 Uh, and I hope you are impressed. 04:23.480 --> 04:30.560 And you may remember that OpenAI agents SDK traces what you do because we we wrapped it in a with trace, 04:30.800 --> 04:33.040 uh, when we, when we called this right here. 04:33.040 --> 04:37.360 And as a result, we can go to the OpenAI platform page and look at our trace. 04:37.560 --> 04:38.760 And here it comes. 04:38.920 --> 04:41.280 The investigator is what we called it. 04:41.280 --> 04:47.960 And you can take a look through and see how it calls the MCP tools for both sets of MCP servers. 04:47.960 --> 04:52.400 And then it makes use of both the browser tool and the file tool. 04:52.400 --> 04:55.600 And you can look through the trace of how that happens. 04:56.120 --> 04:56.480 All right. 04:56.480 --> 05:01.320 So just in case you weren't super impressed by that, maybe you found it anticlimactic. 05:01.760 --> 05:06.600 Let me now reveal what it is about this that makes it so exciting. 05:07.040 --> 05:15.630 It's about the community of MCP servers and how easy it is to access a massive, diverse array of different. 05:15.670 --> 05:19.390 MCP servers out there and just drop them into your project. 05:19.510 --> 05:23.950 So here, for example, are some MCP marketplaces which are just sort of. 05:23.990 --> 05:28.270 Hubs where you can look at different MCP servers that people are offering. 05:28.510 --> 05:31.190 And MCP is one of them. 05:31.350 --> 05:37.790 It's a place where you can find awesome MCP servers, and it has 7200 of them right now, and maybe 05:37.790 --> 05:38.670 more when you look. 05:38.710 --> 05:43.950 It includes the playwright MCP we just looked at from Microsoft, but you'll also see a bunch of others 05:43.950 --> 05:44.230 here. 05:44.230 --> 05:45.710 Something that connects to blender. 05:45.910 --> 05:47.910 Perplexity something. 05:47.950 --> 05:48.750 Let's have a look. 05:48.790 --> 05:50.670 Let's keep going for something that looks interesting here. 05:50.710 --> 05:53.350 GitHub fetch is one that we know, of course. 05:53.670 --> 05:57.790 Um, and uh, there's something that we'll look at the time and time zone. 05:57.790 --> 06:05.630 That's a simple one, a file system, one we know about slack, GitLab, uh, and uh, lots of other 06:05.830 --> 06:13.470 useful MCP servers that you'll see here are whether one to the example that I gave before. 06:13.910 --> 06:16.470 Uh, so much to explore. 06:16.710 --> 06:19.390 So you should come in and look at some of these. 06:19.430 --> 06:24.870 I've got there's another one called glamour II, which has a ton of these MCP servers as well. 06:24.870 --> 06:28.950 This is very popular and it rates them for security license and quality. 06:29.150 --> 06:30.910 And so it's a good way to look at them. 06:30.910 --> 06:35.430 You'll also see there's a way to filter down for the ones that can run remotely, of which there are 06:35.430 --> 06:36.870 just 400 out of there. 06:36.990 --> 06:38.510 Is it 3000 that they have here. 06:38.510 --> 06:39.830 Yeah, 3300. 06:39.950 --> 06:44.990 Uh, so, uh, but but that gives you a sense of what it's like to use a remote MCP server. 06:45.270 --> 06:48.430 But there's lots of stuff here to look at. 06:48.710 --> 06:52.710 And to show you one more Smithery is a popular one. 06:53.070 --> 06:58.190 And here it has it, 4000 MCP servers available here. 06:58.190 --> 07:00.750 And any one of these if you come into them. 07:00.990 --> 07:03.670 Let's find this memory bank one here. 07:03.870 --> 07:06.990 Uh, it's, uh, you'll be able to read about what it does. 07:06.990 --> 07:09.270 You'll be able to read about its tools. 07:09.550 --> 07:14.190 Uh, and so that that is another example of how you can use these. 07:14.550 --> 07:16.150 Um, and if, um. 07:16.150 --> 07:24.190 Yeah, let me let me show you if we're, if we're on something like, um, MCP and we go into the playwright 07:24.510 --> 07:27.150 Mcp1 right here, up it comes. 07:27.190 --> 07:31.710 It gives you the full description of how to use it here as well. 07:32.070 --> 07:35.310 And you can flip over to see the content. 07:35.310 --> 07:37.550 This is this is how you would configure it. 07:37.550 --> 07:43.550 So these are this is the command and the args exactly as we specified it in our code. 07:43.830 --> 07:46.270 And here are the tools that it uses. 07:46.270 --> 07:52.670 So this gives you such a simple way to navigate around a MCP server marketplace. 07:53.110 --> 08:00.030 And then finally I have a link to a great article, a blog post, and Hugging Face community blog, 08:00.310 --> 08:07.270 uh, by someone that talks about, uh, the MCP server marketplaces, why they're big right now, why 08:07.270 --> 08:10.230 why how MCP works, why it's it's so huge. 08:10.510 --> 08:13.110 Uh, and, uh, is is well worth a read. 08:13.110 --> 08:17.390 And I'll put there's another blog post I like that lists out a bunch of different servers. 08:17.390 --> 08:18.790 That's also worth looking at. 08:18.790 --> 08:21.470 So do take a read through these. 08:21.670 --> 08:22.470 Oh, I already did. 08:22.510 --> 08:22.750 Sorry. 08:22.750 --> 08:25.190 This is this is the this is the MCP libraries. 08:25.190 --> 08:29.110 Let's list out MCP and Smithery that we just looked at. 08:29.110 --> 08:32.590 And then a bunch of others that are all worth checking out. 08:33.350 --> 08:35.670 So yeah, two two links to hugging face. 08:35.670 --> 08:37.990 The first is the top MCP servers. 08:37.990 --> 08:44.270 The second is a great community article that talks about what makes MCP so, so popular right now. 08:44.310 --> 08:46.110 What there is to love about it. 08:46.110 --> 08:48.150 But I hope I've given you a good impression. 08:48.150 --> 08:55.910 It's not necessarily that just writing connecting to one MCP server is going to to necessarily show 08:55.910 --> 08:56.950 you the power of this. 08:56.990 --> 09:02.790 It's about how many of them there are, how easy it is just to drop one in with the parameters that 09:02.790 --> 09:03.510 you set. 09:03.550 --> 09:04.310 Just like this. 09:04.310 --> 09:08.630 You set the parameters and then you can just use an MCP server. 09:08.710 --> 09:15.550 It will run typically locally on your box and give you access to a new set of tools, potentially tools 09:15.550 --> 09:18.910 that it's calling to the cloud to do if it's looking for the weather. 09:18.910 --> 09:24.670 But they're tools that are typically running locally on your box and that that is MCP. 09:25.030 --> 09:29.990 And that concludes the first lab of the first day of week six. 09:30.030 --> 09:34.670 And if you're thinking it's a bit of an anti-climax, is that all it is to MCP. 09:34.870 --> 09:35.990 The answer is yes. 09:36.030 --> 09:37.550 And that is the point. 09:37.550 --> 09:38.590 That is all. 09:38.630 --> 09:40.670 MCP is it's really simple. 09:40.670 --> 09:41.590 It's really easy. 09:41.590 --> 09:47.150 It's a few lines of code, and then you suddenly have access to a new set of tools that somebody else 09:47.150 --> 09:47.790 wrote. 09:47.790 --> 09:51.550 And there are thousands of these tools that you can bring them all in. 09:51.550 --> 09:56.670 And during the rest of this week, indeed, we'll work with a zoo of different tools and we'll take 09:56.670 --> 09:58.710 great advantage of all of them. 09:58.910 --> 10:02.510 And that's what makes it so exciting and so fun. 10:02.510 --> 10:05.070 And it's partly because it is so simple. 10:05.510 --> 10:11.230 And with that, that concludes the first day of week six. 10:11.470 --> 10:18.230 And tomorrow we will get into actually building our own MCP server and building our own client. 10:18.990 --> 10:20.110 And it's going to be great.