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Ask AI (semantic MCP finder)

The marketplace has ~200 servers. Ask AI lets you skip the browsing: describe what you need in plain language, and the model picks the matching servers for you, ranked best-first, in the grid.

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How to use it

  1. Open the marketplace.
  2. In the search box, type a need rather than a keyword — e.g. “manage my Postgres database”, “automate my GitHub pull requests”, “read and send Slack messages”.
  3. Click Ask AI (next to the search box) — or just press Enter.
The grid replaces itself with the AI’s picks, under a banner: ”✦ AI picks for ’…’ — N servers”. Click Clear (or type again / pick a category) to return to normal browsing.

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How it works

  1. The runtime sends your configured provider a compact JSON of the whole catalog (each server’s id, name, category, tags, and a short description) plus your request.
  2. The model returns the ids that genuinely satisfy the need, most relevant first.
  3. The runtime validates those ids against the real catalog (so it can never surface an invented server) and shows them in ranked order.
It reuses the cached catalog (no extra fetch) and your configured provider (the same one onboarding set up) — so it costs one small model call and nothing else.
  • Search — you know the server’s name or a keyword (“github”, “postgres”).
  • Ask AI — you know the outcome you want but not which server does it (“something to let me query my analytics warehouse”).

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Requirements & errors

  • Needs a configured provider. With none set up, you’ll get “No AI provider is configured — finish onboarding first.”
  • If the model finds nothing, the grid says so and suggests rephrasing or browsing by category.
  • Network/model failures show a toast and leave you in normal browsing.

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Endpoint

Under the hood this is POST /api/mcp/ask { query } → { query, matches: [mcpId, …] }. See HTTP API.