Beyond Prompts: Building Intelligent Applications With Genkit and the Model Context Protocol
summary
Genkit is an open source AI integration framework that runs on Node/TypeScript, Go and Python and can deploy anywhere (even a Raspberry Pi), providing Genkit flows and AI.define tools to expose functionality as MCP services. The demo wires a calendar reader, a current-time tool and an aviationstack flight lookup into the Model Context Protocol, traces show the model requests a tool (JSON), the app calls the tool and returns results, and a Keynote automation generates a seven‑slide Amsterdam presentation via Keynote automation.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Firebase and Genkit intro
- 2:09Limitations of LLMs and their constraints
- 4:17Retrieval and tool calling
- 7:39What is Genkit
- 8:01Live demo: tool calling
- 12:48Genkit flows and traces
- 14:22Model Context Protocol
- 16:32MCP servers with Genkit
- 18:18Demo: MCP + Genkit
- 22:18Why use MCP
- 23:20AI local apps demo
- 25:10Q&A
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