Hello to everyone,
I wanted to reach out to ask whether you are planning to develop an MCP (Model Context Protocol) connector for Claude by Anthropic.
It would be really interesting to be able to automate certain page editing and content management processes in Sitely directly through Claude. This kind of integration could open up some great possibilities for Sitely users
Is this something on your roadmap?
Thanks
Just out of curiosity, what would this do? I am into A.I. but not this much. Okay, I just read the rest of the email (read more) and I see it would automate content. This is trusting A.I. in a big way. Kind of like asking your Tesla to deliver newspapers or do your grocery shopping (just kidding)
Hi, MCP components are used to connect existing applications to various types of LLMs (generative artificial intelligence, or more precisely Large Language Models), with the possibility of automating a range of tasks on your computer. That said, these systems are still not perfectly accurate or reliable â I would never give full control of my Mac to one of them â but the idea of, for example, asking Claude or ChatGPT to check the pages inside Sitely for typos or spelling mistakes without you having to do it manually seems like an incredible possibility to me. Of course, I imagine you couldnât ask it to build an entire website from scratch (where would the fun be in that anyway?), but you could use it as a skilled assistant, not only for text, but also to spot design issues or identify projects that may not be working as they should.
The MCP component would act as a bridge between your application (Sitely in our case) and the LLM.
As for your joke about Tesla, I think it actually hides a fear that naturally arises in our minds whenever new technologies appear on the horizon. But that same fear should also apply to Sitely itself, because when you decided to use it to build your own websites, you effectively chose not to learn HTML5, JavaScript, and all the technical wizardry behind them. Using Sitely in this example is somewhat similar to the idea behind an MCP component. Sitely lets you do 80% of the work while still allowing you to creatively decide what to include, what to leave out, and so on, without writing a single line of code. In that case, you wouldnât say that Sitely is âdoing your grocery shoppingâ for you, would you? So isnât it essentially the same thing as using an MCP to let an AI assistant help you with your websites?
Thereâs no point in burying our heads in the sand: technological evolution has to be embraced and guided, otherwise thereâs a risk of being left behind â or worse, crushed by it.
I enjoyed researching different subjects with Claude. I curiously requested website help to handle repetitive manual tasks within Sitely app, and Claude offered a lot of code without means to automatically plug it into Sitely.
Same for other apps is expected. There appears no way for ordinary Aps to duplicate the job of human tasks, and the job of learning a user interface, and perhaps Claude has next best work-around for app developers that you mentioned.
A further hurdle would be to harness AI for maverick humans who have integrated multiple different fields of a human life, and who would also like AI to keep the mac-pc optimized, and to avoid so much maintenance time.
Keep us posted, and thanks for the topic introduction.
Thank you for your interest.
It is indeed a vast world and we are just getting started. Not everything works perfectly, but it seems that Anthropicâs Claude is already way ahead in assisting you with computer-based tasks. As I previously pointed out, I donât think it is the right time to give total control to a digital assistant, because we are effectively only at the beginning; it could misinterpret instructions and make a mess.
However, I see that it works very well in interfacing with certain softwares and is being used successfully in programming. This gave me the idea of using it with Sitely. Unfortunately, despite being a fan of the software, I have always been very critical of it because it doesnât allow me to do things that are necessary for me. For instance, many people here use it to create personal and little websites, landing pages, and similar things. For this, Sitely is the best there is. It does what it needs to do, and it does it well. But as soon as you push it a little harder, it shows all its limitations.
Yet, that is one of my problem, because I am the one using Sitely incorrectly. This is because I build websites packed with pages, graphics, and everything I could ever imagine. And in that case, Sitely is not made to handle 50 or 60 pages⌠thatâs where the idea of Claude came to mind. If I could automate a series of things, check the text to fix errors and typos, maybe get help with page automation, I could overcome Sitelyâs limitations and stop bothering the good old Duncan, who has been putting up with me for years because I am always asking for improvements that I rightly believe do not align with the companyâs policy.
I truly hope Claude can be integrated into Sitely. I imagine it would become a software with superpowersâŚ
Here on a perfectly good day for outdoor work you got me still dreaming of a helper with real tasks like managing internet-account menageries.
My 30+ pages easily imported to Sitely was highly appreciated, but iâve no detailed expectations of automatizing its web-improvements nor other functional needs which involve repetitive Sitely tasks. Yet no other app came close from my 30+ year PC-Mac perspective.
I doubt AI will ever be proven workable enough to help humans as much as 3d-2d has revolutionized the structural-form sculpting industry, (for example). Humans would first have to implement their own ethics, perhaps as Platonâs Socrates attempted to point out.
Just export the project to your local system, use the terminal to â cdâ into your project folder, and run Claude directly from there.
Claude needs to interact with Sitely, not with the website generated by Sitely⌠these are two different use perspectives.
Hereâs an example where an MCP with Claude (or Codex, etc) would be helpful: have Sitely run its SEO tool and give Claude the report, then have Claude try to fix as many issues as possible, e.g. provide missing tooltip text for images.
Better yet to have this a built-in feature in Sitely: it would be much more user friendly.
Are you using Claude to reply?
No, Deepl. My English is no so good without Deepl 