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Explore MCP Apps UI implementations for VSCode and Claude
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Description
## Summary
Anthropic announced MCP Apps (January 26, 2026), extending MCP to support interactive UI elements within chat windows. We should explore implementing MCP Apps for Sentry MCP to provide richer tool interactions.
## Background
MCP Apps allows MCP servers to deliver interactive UI elements (charts, forms, dashboards) that hosts render in-conversation rather than returning data alone. This is now supported in:
- **Claude** (web and desktop)
- **VS Code Insiders** (built-in MCP Apps support)
- **Goose**
- **ChatGPT** (rolling out)
## Technical Overview
### How MCP Apps Works
1. **Tools declare UI metadata**: Tools include a `_meta.ui.resourceUri` field pointing to a UI resource
2. **UI Resources**: Server-side resources served via `ui://` scheme containing bundled HTML/JavaScript
3. **Sandboxed rendering**: Host fetches the UI resource and renders it in a sandboxed iframe
4. **Bidirectional communication**: JSON-RPC over `postMessage` for UI-host communication
### Tool Declaration Example
```javascript
{
name: "visualize_data",
description: "Visualize data as an interactive chart",
inputSchema: { /* ... */ },
_meta: {
ui: {
resourceUri: "ui://charts/interactive"
}
}
}
```
### App API
The `@modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps` package provides an App class supporting:
- Receiving tool results from the host
- Calling server tools from the UI
- Updating model context with user interactions
### Security Model
- Iframe sandboxing with restricted permissions
- Pre-declared templates (hosts can review HTML before rendering)
- Auditable JSON-RPC messages
- User consent requirements for UI-initiated tool calls
## Potential Use Cases for Sentry MCP
- **Issue visualization**: Interactive charts showing error trends, frequency, affected users
- **Stack trace explorer**: Collapsible/expandable stack frames with syntax highlighting
- **Event timeline**: Visual timeline of events leading to an error
- **Performance spans**: Waterfall visualization for trace spans
- **Triage forms**: Interactive forms for assigning issues, updating status
- **Dashboard widgets**: Mini-dashboards showing project health at a glance
## VS Code Specific Notes
VS Code Insiders (v1.109) added:
- Built-in MCP Apps support with custom UI for tool invocation
- Dynamic context updates via model context update methods
- `registryBaseUrl` setting for custom MCP package registries
- `workbench.mcp.startserver` command for server discovery
## Resources
- [MCP Apps Blog Post](http://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-01-26-mcp-apps/)
- [VS Code January 2026 Release Notes](https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_109)
- [The Register Coverage](https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/claude_mcp_apps_arrives/)
## Tasks
- [ ] Review MCP Apps specification in detail
- [ ] Evaluate `@modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps` package
- [ ] Identify highest-value Sentry tools for UI enhancement
- [ ] Prototype a simple MCP App (e.g., issue details viewer)
- [ ] Test across Claude, VS Code, and other supported clients
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