Hey, Im the founding engineer at Locus. We’re an MCP that allows you to give your agent access to a crypto wallet and use tools for blockchain actions.
To try it out go to app.paywithlocus.com, create and account, deploy a wallet, create an agent and give it your desired permissions, and generate an API key for that agent.
Then in n8n, add an MCP tool to an AI agent, use https://mcp.paywithlocus.com/mcp, and add Bearer auth authentication, use your API key from Locus.
We just launched n8n support and we’re super excited to see what people end up building with it! More in depth tutorials and docs coming soon!
Hello can tou help me to understand the usefulness of MCP compared to an agent: time savings
To create an agent for Gmail, I need to add Gmail tools, but it seems I need as many Gmail tools (nodes) as there are actions I want to perform. I had thought that the advantage of MCP was that I could add a Gmail MCP, and then all the actions and tools available in n8n for Gmail would automatically be connected. However, I’m not sure I understand correctly because the tutorials I’ve watched show that this isn’t the case. It appears that first, I need to create a Gmail server in my workflow, and then, in a second step, open a new tab to create my MCP Gmail connector and manually add each of the actions and tools that Gmail offers. I don’t see the time-saving benefit, since in both cases, I have to connect the tools for each different action.
It’s strange that the Gmail MCP doesn’t already have all possible actions pre-connected. So, I’m really struggling to understand how I save time with an MCP compared to an agent.
If I’ve understood correctly, and I must list the actions I authorize my Gmail MCP to perform, then to save a lot of time, could I ask an LLM to generate this Gmail MCP with all the functions and actions that Gmail offers? But if I list all the Gmail tools, won’t that risk causing bugs? The idea is to tell it, “You have access to my inbox, and you can do whatever you want,” so it picks from all the tools and makes the necessary decisions based on my goal without me having to specify what to do.